LeBron James, Lewis Hamilton and Rafa Nadal, three different sports, all winners yesterday in the NBA championship, Formula 1 and tennis. They are the witnesses of how much the athletes’ careers have changed and how this diversity is the most evident example of how much the perception of age and the concept of health and well-being has changed today and how the concept of old age has changed radically. Many people today are aware of this change and live this new approach to their lives on a daily basis. All this is also thanks to the successes of these planetary champions
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“In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality,” James said. “And it’s like, ‘This is my team. You do what the f— I tell y’all to do. Or we get rid of y’all.’ ”
“I’m so appreciative in our league of our commissioner [Adam Silver], … He doesn’t mind us having … a real feeling and to be able to express that. It doesn’t even matter if Adam agrees with what we are saying, he at least wants to hear us out. As long as we are doing it in a very educational, non-violent way, then he’s absolutely okay with it.”
“I am very educated about what I believe in and I’m not doing it in a violent way,” James said. “I’m not knocking on your door saying, ‘Listen, I’m kneeling today and if you don’t kneel with me, I’ll knock you the f– out.’ But you know people go crazy when things are done outside the box. People don’t know how to react.”
There are now many sport stars who use meditation to reduce stress, among others there are Kobe Bryant and Lebron James in basketball, the beach volleyball Olympic gold medallist Misty May-Trainor and Kerri Walsh and Andy Murray in tennis. Focus to be in tune with ourselves and own performance. In Italy, in most cases we are still stuck to the well-known concept to pull off the male attributes to overcome stress.
