Taking stock of the superstitions and eccentricities of athletes?

Taking stock of the superstitions and eccentricities of athletes?

I wonder if you, as fans or athletes, have ever found many special phenomena on the sports field?In Taiwan, some of the more common behaviors, such as not shaving before a game, not bringing books to the stadium (losing), and not washing underwear during a win, are common superstitions among athletes!

Baseball and Basketball Player Oddities

Professional baseball players' bats, gloves, and other equipment are not to be touched by women, and women, including reporters, are not allowed to enter the players' lounge!

Coming to the NBA, Bucks star Yannis.Giannis AntetokounmpoWhenever a free throw is made, insist that the ball be dribbled a full six times before the shot is taken.

The Wolf King, KG, who already has his sneakers up, will head-butt the basketball rack twice after entering the court... Luckily, basketball racks nowadays are equipped with protective pads.Vince Carter, who is half man, half god, will kiss the basket before the game.

Perhaps the most bizarre is veteran Jason Terry's revelation that he sleeps in his opponent's jerseys the night before a game ......

Soccer players are no less superstitious and eccentric. Crowe made sure to use his right foot first when he stepped onto the turf of the stadium before each match, and on a few occasions, he was so distracted that he reportedly stepped on the wrong foot that he even walked back to the lounge to do it all over again.

Nadal, the tennis star, would place two bottles of water on the ground in front of his left foot in front of the resting seat during a match, and make sure to point the label at the side of the court he was serving from, with the two bottles neatly leaning against each other only, and if the wind blew them over, he would immediately run back to set them right again.

Xu Jiayu, the representative of the Chinese National Swimming Team, always wears a yellow swim cap when he competes. For him, the yellow swim cap is his lucky thing. No matter what color swim cap the rest of the Chinese team wears, Xu Jiayu will always wear the yellow swim cap.

In fact, athletes may not think that this is a superstition or a magic spell, through the repetition of past victories in the habit of action as a kind of psychological suggestion, so that the athletes can have more confidence in the victory may not necessarily?