What is ‘potential'? It is a perceived forecast of results that is generated both internally by the athlete and externally by peers, parents and experts. It’s not a guarantee. It’s not really REAL. Because it's not something you can hold and touch; it is always something you struggle to grasp, and this inability to pinpoint exactly what it is can be both a curse and a blessing. Getting this balance in sync is the entire name of the game. Hope is an emotion that you tend to push aside...I don’t have to rely on hope. 'Great things happen to people who make great things happen to themselves.' Simon Whitfield said that after he won the Sydney Olympics in 2000. We train too hard to hope that we can win.