Faith In Sports

NFL players often have a faith in a higher power. Before and after every game player from both teams often pray to god, the best example of a religious player is Tim Tebow. Tebow who played for the Denver Broncos often kneeled on one knee praying for Jesus for luck and to win the game. Back in 2011-12 Tebow lead the broncos to a 7-4 record after he took over as QB. Tebow often struggled in the first 55 out of 60 minutes of play but in the last five, he would often play amazing and pull off incredible comebacks. Tebow credits all of his play to Jesus and prays to him win or lose. Many pro players lose faith thou, John Marriott talks about John Edwards a former division one NCAA athlete who lost faith in his religion. Marriot states that “intellectual
“Self confidence is self belief and evidence.“ (Goldsmith, 2014) Self-belief is you are part of the reason you’re winning the games and the evidence are the wins. This means that winning games can provide you with a boost of confidence. “Self-confidence comes with hard work.”(Goldsmith, 2014) The psychology of an athlete can determine if their traits will build a winner or a loser. Having low self-confidence can be detrimental to a career, often athletes who have low self-confidence often it shows in their play. If there play is bad there job can be on the line. Self-confidence is the starting point for success of an athlete. To release your inner strength and become more confident many athletes need to have a concept of self efficacy. “With self efficacy you need to have successful performances, have vicarious experience where you learn what to do by repeated demonstration through participatory modeling.”(Klavora, 2015) Another part of self-efficacy is verbal persuasion where your coach provides specific not general feedback and the final part of self-efficacy is emotional arousal where an athlete needs to be “pumped up or calmed down. “ (Klavora,
Athletes face adversity all of the time, it is how they deal with adversity that will determine how good their character is. Athletes who remain positive throughout adversity often get associated with a positive character and a good zest for life. Athletes who overcome the odds like Michael Oher an offensive tackle who was homeless during his childhood, then he escaped the “ghetto” in Memphis to a rich family who took care of him and helped him onward for his journey to the NFL. Unfortunately there is an issue with positive motivation, not all athletes’ possess it. Some Athletes often don’t overcome adversity well they negatively self talk and it brings their confidence down until their confidence is shot. There zest for life is gone, there life has no