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"When I am on the mound I create a lane between me and home plate and I block out everything else. I just focus on the target that my catcher has given me. Nothing else exists." - Roger Clemens   Today’s show is largely based on this quote:   "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   The thoughts in our minds make things so complicated, yet when it comes to getting rid of bad thoughts, we tend to focus on them instead. So we can’t think of them, yet we also can’t suppress them. What should you do then?    Problem with a lot of athletes is not that we let our thoughts affect us, it’s that we put our attention on the wrong thoughts.    I was posed a question that we can prepare all we want before the game, but where there are situations during the game that caused us to can’t help it but feel surmounting pre