The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
People think sport is life and death - it's not.
I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.
Sometimes when you push something or you force something too much, the progress doesn't happen the way it should.
If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.
