Novak Djokovic - You want to be at the top, you better learn to deal with pressure

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The protection of Athletes who can't deal with pressure. It's annoying and disrespectful to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s players who had to deal with real pressure and landmark events

This modern hashtag era makes a mockery of "pressure"
Bro I ain’t ever seen the sjw tag spoken in relation with pressure, it’s always when racist white people don’t like that they can just say whatever the fukk they want. Same shyt with cancel culture, people who wanna punch down.
 

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She opened the door for people to question her, u know the haters

it will be brought up over and over the rest of her career

honestly shes too goated for it to affect her legacy long term though, even if they tried.

Dudes here dont understand shes legit the Wayne Gretzky of gymnastics, no one even comes close. She has won so fxcking much that it doesnt make sense. She has signature moves named after her that no one has ever been able to perform. . Shes basically at "i could do whatever tf I want" status and she knows it too.

if a lesser athlete did this then yeah it might hurt. In Simones case it really doesnt. All ppl could say is "oh well i wish she hadnt done that that one year". You still cant possibly put anyone ahead of her or dismiss the rest of her career over this without looking silly. She's that good.
 

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any athlete talking about "mental health" is soft

people make it more complicated than what it is

life is hard...and Americans are babied.

Imagine someone from an African country or Southeast Asia talking about "mental health" because they need to win a ping pong tournament
 

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honestly shes too goated for it to affect her legacy long term though, even if they tried.

Dudes here dont understand shes legit the Wayne Gretzky of gymnastics, no one even comes close. She has won so fxcking much that it doesnt make sense. She has signature moves named after her that no one has ever been able to perform. . Shes basically at "i could do whatever tf I want" status and she knows it too.

if a lesser athlete did this then yeah it might hurt. In Simones case it really doesnt. All ppl could say is "oh well i wish she hadnt done that that one year". You still cant possibly put anyone ahead of her or dismiss the rest of her career over this without looking silly. She's that good.
The guy widely considered the mentally toughest and most ruthless competitor ever essentially did the same thing she did. Michael Jordan took a break during the middle of his prime because he was worn mentally and also had nothing left to prove in his sport.
 

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pressure busts pipes:mjpls:

but he didn't make any excuses...manned up after the match and admitted he got bested

“It’s just sport, you know,” Djokovic said. “He played better. I’ve got to give him credit for turning the match around. He served extremely well. I was not getting too many looks on the second serve. My serve just drastically dropped. I didn’t get any free points from 3-2 in the second (set). Yeah, my game fell apart…his game, he won, I think seven or eight games in a row, and yeah, that was it.”

The guy widely considered the mentally toughest and most ruthless competitor ever essentially did the same thing she did. Michael Jordan took a break during the middle of his prime because he was worn mentally and also had nothing left to prove in his sport.

but MJ got to working on getting ready to play baseball...he didn't just quit and go home especially not in the middle of the Finals either

and lets not forget to mention the murder of his father playing a role either
 
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Maybe. But I used to work with a Serbian dude who got drunk one time at a staff party and started bawling and calling himself a coward cuz at nine years old his whole family was slaughtered in his house and he only survived by hiding under a bed.
I understand what you are saying but I’m sure millions of Bosnians, Croatians and Albanians would tell you a much different story.
 

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Maybe. But I used to work with a Serbian dude who got drunk one time at a staff party and started bawling and calling himself a coward cuz at nine years old his whole family was slaughtered in his house and he only survived by hiding under a bed.


Whole families get slaughtered in the US, what is your point
 
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