USSSA Baseball Success Secrets: How to Play Mentally Tough

October 13, 2009 by Dr. Tom
Filed under: Baseball Coaching 

To succeed in USSSA Baseball you’ve got to be mentally tough.

I define mental toughness as the ability to consistently play at or near your best regardless of circumstances. That means no matter what situation you are in, regardless of what has happened in the past, or what might happen in the future, you are able to play nearly as well as you are capable of playing.

Pretty much anyone can play great when they feel great, but players who succeed at the higher levels are able to create good or even great performances when they don’t feel 100%.

They might be tired or frustrated, or they might have doubts about their ability to succeed (doubt happens to the best of them, even at the Major League level), but somehow they are able to focus the energy they do have in a way that produces success.

In the video below, I explain a bit more about how to be USSSA baseball mentally tough.

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