Confidence In Sports Psychology

Confidence, Motivation, and Mental Toughness

In Psychology, a sub category of the study is Sports Psychology. Many focus in this category to get a feel of how many athletes mentally feel while playing their sport. In the sports psychology the players should have high confidence, high mental toughness, and plenty of motivation. Motivation is having the desire to play a sport. Confidence is believing in yourself to play the game or sport well. Mental Toughness is the ability to not be discouraged when all goes awry and believing in yourself even when you make a mistake.

In this project I wanted to find out if as a Coach and a ball player if my athlete was more confident or less confident. As a coach he knows the drawbacks of losing a game because

Motivation plays a vital role in being part of a sport team. Players have to want it, they have to want to win, they need to want to hit the ball over the fence, or do better in the next round, in the next quarter. Whatever the sport may be the way you think and feel about a sport should be wanting to play and be a part of a team. If a player just “ I only play my sport to show others how good I am at it?” This mental thinking shows that a player is not interested in the sport and only wants a higher social status, that even though the athlete may be good at his/her sport that, they are not into the sport. The athlete needs to be able to enjoy the sport and be confident not to show his ego through. Leave the ego behind and get your job done depending on your position in the sport. “I play my sport for the status of being an athlete. ” These athletes are the one’s who may be terrible at the sport but the coaches feel bad and feel the need to keep them on the team. The other part may be that the athlete is fantastic at some parts of the sport and does not really need to play every game or all games. This is also an ego boost for

His main motivation tactic is probably his success stories, like the players that have come from our program. He uses them as an example of what they can be. He's a very hands on coach which I think is better because he shows you what it should look like. He's very passionate and he is very serious about the game. He's a fun coach when we listen and he likes to have fun but when it comes down to it he can change it up and be more serious till we get the job done. And he's extremely knowledgeable about different techniques and strategies to help players fielding and batting and throwing.” Andrew Quick, Senior Baseball