THE first lady British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said that, “Being powerful is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!”The same is true for being successful, especially in sport; if we have to tell people we are successful, we are not. The fact is, people will see for themselves if we are successful; they do not need to be told. If we tell people, we are not being successful because we do not have a key ingredient of success, namely humility. We may have been successful as a player but we will not have been successful as a person. How much more successful we might become if we only developed that quality of humility.
