“There is no such thing as perfection” said Steve Hansen, coach of the All Blacks, the ‘best sports team in the world’. “But that doesn’t mean you stop striving for it.”

In an interview in the Guardian he went on to say: “Our aim as a group of players, coaches and managers, right down to our baggage man, is just to want to be better than we were the week before.”

These deceptively simple words capture what most might aspire to in their own work related performances and they should be the aim in pitching. Continue reading →