The Mental Game Of Baseball Challenge Chapter 5
The following challenge was developed from the book The Mental Game of Baseball by H. A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl. In it the authors present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game. This challenge is designed to test your knowledge and understanding of the tips provided in it and to help you improve your concentration, visualization, focus and relaxation so you can directly improve your performance. As a member of the Nauset Baseball Team, you are required to read The Mental Game of Baseball Outline available on Nauset High School's Student SPORTS Page and complete each chapter's challenge. Remember: Read it, Watch it, Do it!
- 1.What best describes responsibility?
- A.
Accepting your behavior and actions
- B.
Accounting for your own behavior and actions
- C.
Changing your behavior and actions
- D.
Believing in your goals and attaining them
- 2.Responsibility begins with willingness to acknowledge
- A.
Who we are
- B.
What we are
- C.
What we want to become
- D.
All the above
- 3.Which one of the following are you NOT responsible for?
- A.
We are responsible for our thoughts
- B.
We are responsible for our actions
- C.
What we learn and don't learn
- D.
What others like and dislike about us
- E.
What we say and don't say.
- 4.What is a common excuse we need to avoid?
- A.
Wind, and field conditions
- B.
Bad calls and pitch calls
- C.
I didn't try to do that something just happened
- D.
Coach isn't using me in the right position
- E.
All the above
- 5.What can you control and what are you responsible for?
- A.
What it takes to win:
- B.
What it takes to have a good at-bat
- C.
To pitch as well as you are capable
- D.
All of the above
- 6.Best performers separate themselves from others by taking active responsibility for themselves
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The degree to which a player holds himself accountable and responsible for his actions will be a major factor in determining the degree of his learning, improving and succeeding.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.The coach is responsible for how individual players on his team think
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.A player that can understand the difference between where he is reasonably trying to go as opposed to where others want him to end up approaches his game in the right direction.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.It's possible for a player to completely control the results of his performance or the outcome of a game
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.A good player does not point his finger at someone he points it at himself but doesn't wag it
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Emotions and tension levels are not controllable actions
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.It's what you say to yourself and what you visualize in your mind that's important and that will ultimately determine your behavior and performance
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Someone who says they “Have to” says they have no control over the situation
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.You can't possibly define what can and cannot be controlled in your life and on the field
- A.
True
- B.
False
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