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Is "heart" something that can be acquired or is it what you are born with?

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by TheRealist137, Jul 21, 2010.

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Is "heart" something that can be acquired or is it what you are born with?

  1. Can be acquired

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  2. You are born with it

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  1. TheRealist137

    TheRealist137 Member

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    That T-Mac thread got to thinking. Is having "heart", which obviously posters say McGrady lacks, something that can be acquired somehow or is it something you are born with, and if you are born w/o "heart", you can never acquire it, in which case it'd be like being born without a leg.
     
  2. HombreDeHierro

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    it's something you get at a young age, or you don't. depends on the situation actually
     
  3. Bojangles

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    Most people are born with one, typically.
     
  4. BrooksBall

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    Like a previous poster suggested, I think it's something you form during your developmental years. By the time you're a pro, you either have it or you don't with few exceptions.

    Better poll options would have been:

    A. Born with it
    B. Can be acquired before becoming a pro
    C. Can be acquired after becoming a pro (with few exceptions)

    I would've voted B.
     
  5. RoxSqaud

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    Depends on the parents.
     
  6. BoomTown

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    this is a good question.
    If you think about it...

    Players 20 years ago had much more heart than players today. The heart of Bird, Johnson, and Jordan cannot be compared to the heart of Lebron, Wade ect.
    This makes me lean towards that you can acuire "heart" while being a pro athlete. Its just that some of todays players are simply caught up in money instead of winning a championship.
     
  7. OkayAyeReloaded

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    Heart is what gets you to the pro level.
    It is something you develop in your younger years when you first start playing sports or how you handle yourself in tough challenges or adversity in life. It's a personal choice that you can develop in later years, but since people are such creatures of habit they usually don't.

    Usually you can identify heart right away in a player and it stays that way his whole career. Hakeem was aggressive and got into fights early in his career. Chris Paul hates to lose anything. Larry Bird always believed he would win every game (and was a very arrogant trash talker).
     
  8. Starvela

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    you have heart or you don't..you can't learn how to have heart!
     
  9. DreamShook

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    TV has thought me a lot of things one being that Women are usually the root cause of every conflict in the universe and two Heart is given to you by mother earth in ring form to be combined with other ringed powers to form an even greater power that thwarts evil!

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  10. Starvela

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    I agree with most of what you said..But for the most part you get to the pro-level because of size and/or athleticism...
     
  11. dharocks

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    I think in this case, what you're really talking about is a player's level of focus. How determined they are to be the best player/winner they can. And I think for an athlete it is something that CAN be developed at a later stage, but usually isn't. For some guys, all they need is a kick in the rear.
     
  12. Easy

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    It's the society's fault. ;)
     
  13. Depressio

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    Born with it. A lot of athletes (McGrady, for example) claim they have it and say all the right things, but on the court they simply don't. Those who have it usually don't talk about it and simply show it.
     
  14. tinman

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    of course this is Tmac related.

    So Tmac might play for the Clippers.

    Sam Cassell at age 36 took the Clippers a game 7 in the 2nd round of the playoffs.

    Heart matters.
     
  15. SuraGotMadHops

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    absolutely splendid
     
  16. GRENDEL

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    I think you are born with it but it can be removed on occasions.....

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  17. RKREBORN

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    heart is a matter of circumstance and upbringing
     
  18. OkayAyeReloaded

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    Your right.
    I don't know how to use the edit feature, but I did want to write that heart wasn't the only thing to get you to the pros, talent is. But your heart is what it is when it when it gets you to the pro level.
     
  19. Qball

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    Can be acquired by being taught but only at a young age.
     
  20. daywalker02

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    willpower I would call it. Whereas people questions this man's heart I will call his body fragile more than anything I have ever encountered.
     

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