4 Lessons from Sir Steve Redgrave
“Remember these six minutes for the rest of your lives. Listen to the crowd and take it all in. This is the stuff of dreams.”
Lessons from Sir Steve Redgrave
# 1 — You will get, what you put into something.
If you work hard and if you are prepared to put the extra hours into your training, you will reap the rewards and you will receive the success you deserve.
# 2 — Don’t allow any illness to stop you.
No matter what illnesses you are struggling with, they should not stop you from pursuing your goals and dreams. Sir Steve Redgrave suffered from lifelong dyslexia, colitis and diabetes and was still able to enjoy many sportive successes in his rowing career.
# 3 — The distance between victory and defeat is little.
Redgrave learnt early on in his childhood that the difference between victory and defeat is very little. It doesn’t take long to turn from a winner to a loser, or vice versa. He learnt this lesson the hard way. When he trained hard and won every competition in his first season, he and his team started taking things easily by resting on their laurels. They all thought that defending the crown they won, would be just a formality. In the following training sessions, they didn’t put so much effort into it as they used to do in the past. The consequence? They started losing in several competitions which the season before they won easily. They took it for granted and thought defending the crown would be just a formality. Redgrave assumed that the name on the trophy would be already engraved. You need to work hard, one more time, and make things happen. Nothing happens by itself. It was this experience that taught Sir Steve Redgrave that he needed to work harder and set himself realistic targets all the way through. Once a goal was achieved, he focused on the next goal and with this mind set he was able to succeed. He considers the human race as lazy, because only a few will be able to raise the bar.
# 4 — You don’t need to excel in sport in order to succeed in life.
In order to succeed in life, you can choose sport, but it’s not the only way to excel in life. Finding something fulfilling in life from which you get something out of it, is all that matters. However, he believes that having the best sports events in this world is much more valuable than sport in itself. It’s all about health issues, education etc.
