Passion + Practice + Perseverance > Pressure. That’s the equation. It’s the thing I come back to more than anything else I learned in twenty years of playing this game. Pressure never gets smaller. The ninth inning is the ninth inning whether you’re ready for it or not. Nobody has ever talked their way into a moment being easier than it is. What changes is you. Passion is what gets you out there when nobody made you go. Practice is what you do with it, over and over, in the shadows where nobody is clapping. Perseverance is staying with it long after the excitement wore off and it turned into work. Stack those three and pressure stops being the thing that exposes you. It becomes the thing that shows what you built. You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to your preparation. PREPARE FOR THE PRESSURE. Link in bio. #PrepareForThePressure #BenZobrist #MentalToughness #SportsParents #FaithAndSports