No whining in racing!

No whining in racing!
By Tami Eggleston (c) - www.DrivingSecrets.com

In the movie "A League of their Own," Tom Hanks playing a coach says to his softball players, "There is no crying in baseball!" Well, the same thing applies to all sports in my opinion. I am not saying that sometimes really bad things happen in sports, there is bad weather, there are bad officials, there are annoying opponents, but you know what? Great athletes know how to learn from things, control what they can, make the best of bad situations, and they don't whine. Instead of focusing on whining, focus on winning!

Case in point, last weekend we went out to racing for the first drag race of the season. Now there were lots of things to whine about. First off, we had troubles with our generator, took it to a shop, and of course the person did not get it fixed in time for us to take to the track--so we have to get electricity for our battery charger from our friends and we have no generator in our motor home (not fun!). Then the weather was typical spring weather and it was cold and rainy--(also not fun). All the racers were complaining about the cost of fuel and race fuel (and yeah, that is definitely not fun). But you know what, if you can't control it, learn from it, and then deal with it...and at the end of the weekend, we not only didn't whine, but the tuffpaw.com dragster went to the winner's circle in super comp (and yeah, that was definitely fun!)