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Here's an excerpt from a book I recently read, "The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results," by Bob Knight.

Negative thinking—realizing that an average game from your team and average preparation from you isn’t likely to beat an average game by the very good team you’re about to play—can give you by far your best chance to win that game.

Positive thinking that amounts to sheer hope isn't going to do it.  There is the cliche "Hope springs eternal," but not within me.  My feeling is that today, way too often, hope has replaced sweat.  To win that game, you'd better make sure that your team, and you, are doing some sweating.