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Motivation Quote by Jennifer Wyatt

"I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before"

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Pressure makes amateurs reach for magic tricks; professionals reach for the boring stuff that works. Jennifer Wyatt's line is a blueprint for performing on command: relax, then surrender to a process so rehearsed it can run without conscious micromanagement. The deceptively casual "let it happen" is doing heavy lifting. It's not passivity. It's the decision to stop interfering with a motor skill that has already been trained to survive noise, stakes, and adrenaline.

The subtext is an argument against the mythology of the "clutch gene". Wyatt doesn't romanticize confidence as swagger; she frames it as evidence. "I've done it a million times before" isn't bravado, it's a receipt. Repetition becomes a kind of moral authority: you earn calm by paying in hours. That matters culturally because sports, especially in highlight-reel era coverage, often gets narrated as destiny in real time. Wyatt drags the camera back to the untelevised part: practice as the true drama.

There's also a quiet psychological tell here. The pre-shot moment is where spirals start: tightening grip, over-aiming, narrating failure. "Relax" is an anti-spiral command, a way to keep the mind from turning the body into a committee. The intent isn't to feel serene; it's to preserve the conditions under which skill expresses itself. In a world that rewards performative intensity, Wyatt points to a different competitive edge: cultivated ease, built the hard way.

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Jennifer Wyatt (born December 10, 1965) is a Athlete from Canada.

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