All Whites celebrate failure (do Bodybuilders?)

[Gasp]

Everytime the All Whites play overseas its seems they are quite happy to celebrate a loss. With the Mexico result and countless other games, if they hold a team to only 2-0 there is a lap of honour and if its 1-0 its like theyve won the world cup! The reality is many of the teams could have scored a dozen more goals and we seem to get far more out of it than they do.

It seems to me that they will never aspire to any great heights with that mentality.

Do bodybuilders and powerlifters have such a mentality. I know personal bests are important but not many go out there with a losers mentality.

[EMC]

im the best.

[olympia]

Everytime the All Whites play overseas its seems they are quite happy to celebrate a loss. With the Mexico result and countless other games, if they hold a team to only 2-0 there is a lap of honour and if its 1-0 its like theyve won the world cup! The reality is many of the teams could have scored a dozen more goals and we seem to get far more out of it than they do.

It seems to me that they will never aspire to any great heights with that mentality.

Do bodybuilders and powerlifters have such a mentality. I know personal bests are important but not many go out there with a losers mentality.

Thats so true. I know every training day for me is war. If i dont get one more rep or go heavier than last time i have failed. Succeeding in the gym passes on to every thing else you do in life.

[muffs]

im the best.

Qualify that, because from what I've seen you're pretty shithouse at stringing together a decent debate or point on the web.

If it's a case of being the best that you, EMC, can be, you're welcome to the title. I doubt whether anyone else is interested.

[EMC]

im the best.

Qualify that, because from what I've seen you're pretty shithouse at stringing together a decent debate or point on the web.

If it's a case of being the best that you, EMC, can be, you're welcome to the title. I doubt whether anyone else is interested.

no, i mean i am the best - period. champions arent born, theyre made.

you can continue crying now..

[PTinCHCH]

no, i mean i am the best - period. champions arent born, theyre made.

you can continue crying now..

if you wana believe everything you hear on a tv ad then thats up to you, but champions ARE born. no substitution for genetics, blowhard.

[PTinCHCH]

I know personal bests are important but not many go out there with a losers mentality.

too right. aim high and go for the win.

[muffs]

no, i mean i am the best - period. champions arent born, theyre made.

you can continue crying now..

You're also a shithouse troll.

[EMC]

no, i mean i am the best - period. champions arent born, theyre made.

you can continue crying now..

if you wana believe everything you hear on a tv ad then thats up to you, but champions ARE born. no substitution for genetics, blowhard.

genetics is the only variable that we cannot control.

when you go to the gym to lift a new PB. you eat the same, hydrate the same, stretch the same, warm up the same, lift the same.. up until that point youve conditioned your recovery to prepare to go and make that lift. youve thought about it for the last week and you walk in and switch it on and feel great, but you dont make the lift? it happens, it takes so much to be the best at anything and at the end of the day it comes down to nature, LUCK, like i said anything can happen. but you gotta be dedicated.

--->as for the all whites, im not any sort of professional sports guru. but i think for a sport that we have never been good at, to get funded and flown around the world to get out asses kicked, a small loss is actually a win. if your at the bottom theres no where else to go but up yeah?

not really worth starting a thread over.

[Beef]

not really worth starting a thread over.

[Gasp]

im not any sort of professional sports guru.

...really?

[EMC]

im not any sort of professional sports guru.

...really?

haha but seriously why would you compare soccer with bodybuilding? i mean theres principals that carry over to everything.. but its like comparing apples to bananas :?

all whites dont suck becuase they have losers mentallity theyre just not as good of a team and a country who hasnt been exposed to the sport that much. powerlifters/bodybuilders dont slit their wrists when they dont make PB, thats life.

[tinytraps]

IMO a powerlifter should be concerned with their lifts and making them go up instead of getting caught up with beating other people. Give a 100% on the platform beat your PBs and if you happen to win a title well thats a bonus.

[Pseudonym]

Come on guys, enough of the cattiness and personal attacks. :naughty:

[Optimass]

Body Building is more successful IMo in NZ. Look at how many world champions have come from NZ. All Whites have never had that success - so I guess you have to take any positive spin you can.