Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. This is a special episode,

Wednesday episode called Books and Bars. It's where I break down books. I take excerpts from

books that I'm reading. I read a ton and I like to share it with you all. And also bars from

my favorite rap songs. I listen to a lot of hip-hop music and I love to share with you guys the wisdom and the insight and the knowledge that I get from that as well because there's

a ton in it. So today I'm going to break down a book and it's a national bestseller. It's by

me a ham. Now, I'm not a huge soccer person. I played soccer growing up. It is not a sports

that I play anymore, obviously. I was a football player. But Mia Hamm

happens to be one of the greatest that ever did it. So she's broken nearly every record in

women's soccer. I think you could probably call her something like the Michael Jordan

of women's soccer. Correct me if I'm wrong. She's a beast

though, all right? She is a beast very well respected. She has her own building on the Nike

campus. That should say a little something about her as well. But anyway, her book is called Go for the

goal. And it's a pretty good book. About halfway through, she starts getting into more specific

tactical soccer drills. So for those of you who play

soccer, this is an incredible book for you to read. But either way, whenever you have one of the

greatest that ever did it and they wrote a book, I got to read it because I got to know how they

think. So I'm going to read a part right here and I'm going to explain why this is so important. But listen to Mia Hamm. This is her words. She says, you have to step on

the field thinking I'm gonna make an impact today as opposed to thinking, Mia, whatever you do,

please don't give the ball away. You have to be convinced that you're going to win every 50-50

ball. Run yourself into the ground, still sprint some more, and finish your

chances with authority. She says, but even if you play with confidence, how will you react when it

seems as a fate, the referee or your left foot are conspiring against you? Or you've dominated a team

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