Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum
Tournaments => Bass Tournament Tips, Techniques Talk & Ethics => Topic started by: djkimmel on February 28, 2009, 03:15:34 PM
An interesting item to consider for bass tournament anglers (and any other sports competitor for that matter) from Pete Robbins' blog on Gary Yamamoto's Inside Line:
"I don't fish against other anglers, I'm just competing against the fish."
While reading a recent article in Conde Nast Portfolio about the business endeavors of Tiger Woods, the following paragraph caught my eye:
On the course, Woods has a reputation for beating his opponents before they even tee off. continue and read the January 12, 2009 post... (http://www.insideline.net/il-online/2008/blog/2008/blog-index.html)
I know I've said the same statement myself in the past... but I never really believed it completely. The point it - I often fish better whenever I fished against tougher competition AND I think it is also more productive to make an attempt to concentrate as much as possible on the things you can personally control.