Paddy Upton
@PaddyUpton1
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Speaker, coach, author, Professor, podcaster: Lessons from the Worlds Best : https://t.co/YdtDDAs2C4 https://t.co/TJLYChYIQM
Joined April 2012
Excited and privileged to be back in #TeamIndia colours, working alongside long time colleague, friend and Head Coach Rahul Dravid. Much of our journey was thanks to @rajasthanroyals.
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Time for the main show! The moment we been waiting for, #teamIndia heading over to Australia, to double click on the preparations for @T20WorldCup Not sure when I last tucked a shirt in, feels strange! @BCCI
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Happy Diwali! . India’s last ball win over Pakistan in the World Cup opener was a wonderful way to start the Diwali celebrations.
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Throwback. @sachin_rt giving @VVSLaxman281 bouncer practice in the Chennai change-room during India vs England Test match (Dec, 2008), as @msdhoni watches on.
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“You’re the World Champion. And you deserve it.”.18-year-old Gukesh D became the youngest Chess World Champion, showcasing lessons in resilience, composure, and humility—skills for life, sport, and business. Read more: #WorldChampion
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Friends, rivals, celebrations and heartache at the colorful @IPL with @shetmyer with @rajasthanroyals PINK hair, @Russell12A with @kkriders PURPLE AND GOLD hair and my sides dyed GREY in solidarity with the ‘older’ people out there. 🙈 Sunil keeping it conservative,for now!
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Loving being back @IPLT2022 and @rajasthanroyals Rekindling old friendships, making new ones, talking tactics, learning about bio-bubble life and the impact on players over the past 2 years. @IamSanjuSamson @ninety9sl @yuzi_chahal
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A fascinating listen! Next podcast is out, with guest @faf1307 Faf du Plessis is a deep-thinker, has genuine Big Match Temperament, is an excellent all-round leader, and a man of sound character. He shares openly, inspiringly and without filter on
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Love this clip! Beyond winning, sport teaches invaluable lessons for all of life, both on and off the field - lessons that a ‘win-at-all-costs’ approach can undermine
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It’s arrived! After four years labour of love, I have the final hard copy in my hands! Offering readers insights and lessons (from success and failure), from two decades of working with the world’s best cricketers’. In stores and on @amazonbooks by 25 April
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“Sorry, but winning is not a habit. It is a result; one that follows the habit of preparing better and training smarter than the other guys.” @ABdeVilliers17 #TheBarefootCoach
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When a good mate (an English rugby supporter) loses a bet (that Eng would beat SA in Rugby World Cup final). and keeps his word. 1.5km naked beach run, Cape Town
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My book clearly states “@GautamGambhir was undoubtedly one of the best, most determined and successful Test batsmen in the world. Something he would prove, yet again, in the 2011 World Cup.” We ALL have Insecurities, even champions, and that’s OK. I’d pick GG in my team any day!.
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Rahul Dravid played an integral part in my coaching journey, since first working with him back in 1995! I’ve since learned loads from him, about cricket and life - the best of which is shared in my book, The Barefoot Coach. Thanks RSD 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Todays guest on “Lessons from the World’s Best” is Indian cricketer and off-spinner @harbhajan_singh . Harbhajan started out as a young kid from Jalandhar, with big dreams, an abundance of passion, a love for fun had a huge work-ethic.
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Awesome 4 days in Dubai at @thePSLt20 player draft for @lahoreqalandars. Relaxing with our owners and coaches
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Wow. Inspiring talk by Sibusiso Vilane, from humble beginning to become the first African to summit Mt Everest. @sibueverest #PowerOfBlue
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I see one of my favorite surfing, fishing, guitar-playing skate-boarders @DaleSteyn62 has retired from chucking rocks at other adults on the cricket field. Congrats on a great career doing the former bud. and now for more of the latter 🏄🏻♂️🎣🎸🛹
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Once in a while we all get that WOW mind-f*#k moment in life. This is one of those moments for me. Redefines the word HERO!
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After 4 yrs, my new book is complete! 350 pages of insights, success & failures from coaching India, Proteas & T20 leagues. Launch: Nov ‘18.
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Back in @rajasthanroyals pink. Working with captain Sanju Samson and coach @KumarSanga2 in the brand new role as ’Team Catalyst’. Combining mental coaching of players, supporting the coach aswell as helping create and embed culture #royalsfamily
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@ICC @imVkohli @stevesmith49 has returned respectful, humble and graciously - having already paid a VERY high price for not stopping Warner/Bancroft sandpapering the ball. RESPECT to @imVkohli for asking fans to respect Smith! #sportsmanship.
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World Cup Champions! Flashback to 8 years ago, India raise the 2011 Cricket World Cup - in @sachin_rt last W. Cup.
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Mental toughness is like Batman and Superman. We all know them. But they're not real and don't actually exist. Extract from my book, “The Barefoot Coach”. What do we mean when we say a cricketer is mentally tough? |
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Coaches readily tell players what they're doing right and wrong. As coaches/ managers, are we open to this same feedback from our players?.
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The joy of @IPL, players from opposing nations join as team mates for stint. @patcummins30 and @KagisoRabada25 shake on a temporary truce!
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Your team of experts are always there to support you but ultimately you must take responsibility for your own reflection, analysis and planning.
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Sorry, but winning is not a habit! It is a result. One that follows the habit of planning smarter and working harder than the other guys.
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Some of my thoughts on instructing, mentoring, advising and player-centered coaching
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What’s your burning Covid-19 question? I’ll pose the best questions whilst on this amazing panel of leaders, and to 1.5mil listeners! Listen live at 3.30pm CAT on 19/05 on link @SriSri @ProfAbdoolKarim @AdHabb @kuminaidoo @adrianamarais #worldmeditates.
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Coaching is a process of helping an athlete discover their own highest potential, their unique best self. It is not telling them what to do.
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Steve Smith is a really good guy. His ‘crime’ was not having the courage (or support) to shift the culture he inherited.
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Nice surprise to meet the star of my all-time fav movie ‘Legend of Baggervance’ at our @ThunderBBL game in Melbourne # Legend Will Smith
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Today a man begged me for money cos he had only 1 arm. On the same day, a woman with only 1 arm won the Woman's Pipeline Pro surf contest!.
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Generous donations coming in for Vizag Surf School, India! 4 new Firewire boards from @SharethestokeSA and heaps more from @SurfEmporium 🙏🏼
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What an Insightful and inspiring Panel discussion. hope some of the 3millions online viewers gained value for their lives. I did 🙏🏼.
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Be grateful and fully content with your current knowledge and skill. At the same time, be relentless about learning more and getting better.
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A privilege to spend the #BBL05 campaign with these great people, who also happen to be pretty useful cricketers!
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On Cricinfo. Some of my thoughts on coaching. 'The single biggest obstacle to a coaches success is their own ego'
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36% of parents are ruining their kids sport development, by yelling, criticizing, over-coaching. Jean de Villiers and I sharing a better way
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I just met the worlds best salesman, traveling thru Jhb airport. Lucas the shoeshine bloke called me over to shine my shoes. I pointed down saying, ‘Bud, I’m wearing flip flops’. He shot back, ‘bud, this is 2020, anything is possible!’. So I just got my flip flops shined 😀
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Celebrating holi in Guwahati, speaking to EO Northeast India leaders. Thanks for your wonderful hospitality. Topic: Growing the leader within. Both within self, and within the organization.
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Uncle Brad and Uncle Pravin being looked after at Delhi Airport @bradhodge007 #pravintambe @rajasthanroyals
http://t.co/54GgUKeir5.
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1 #personalmastery is the journey from focusing less on results to placing more value on the habits & processes that lead to those results.
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Sharing the inside story of how the Indian cricket team got to the World No. 1 ranking for the first time ever. Despite not necessarily having the world’s best team on paper. In a team, first do your job excellently. Then look for how you can contribute to others!
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Got the opportunity to learn a new sport (to me) and meet new players and coaches. Lots of new things ….yet the principles of high performance, great teamwork, a fertile culture for learning and growth, and of maintaining a healthy performance mindset, are pretty universal.
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Great to be back in @ThunderBBL colours, and teaming up again with captain @ShaneRWatson33 Summer, Cricket, Sunshine and Surf in Sydney!
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Final training session last night before @IPL play-offs tonight at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. @rajasthanroyals vs @gujarat_titans . 1600 SAST || 1930 IST
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11 yrs ago today, I was lucky enough to be with India as we won the @icc cricket World Cup in Mumbai. One of the best days of my life. Today I'm on an @IPL bus with the @rajasthanroyals with some of the same legends from that momentous day.
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🧠Success is 80% mental—yet most athletes barely train their minds. My Mental Game course helps you break barriers, build resilience & deliver your best. 💥 Get 20% off with code MENTALGAME20 (ends Sunday)! 👉 #MentalGame #PaddyUpton
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36% of parents ruin their kids development. Here’s some ways to not be in that 36%, as well as guidelines for coaches to reduce pressure and anxiety of performance. Winning with kids - Mumbai Mirror
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@DGukesh becomes the youngest Chess World Champion in history! Witnessing his calm, focus, and resilience under pressure was extraordinary. Proud to be part of his journey. 🧠 25% off The Mental Game course with code MENTALGAME25 till Sunday:
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When we criticise or blame others, it encourages them to focus on self-protective behaviour rather than on producing great results.
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Well-meaning coaches/leaders often try to do what we believe is best for our players/employees. What's even better, is simply to ask them!.
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Fear of failure is the most common (and unnecessary) fear to plague athletes. Reactive parents & coaches cause it
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In the presence of genius. Taking the opportunity glean some wisdom from some true legends of the game - Barry Richards, Mike Proctor, Graeme Pollock.
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When a new CEO is appointed in business, they often get a mentor/coach. It’s intelligent modern-day practice. In sport when we appoint a new coach/captain, we assume they’re already the finished product? Some even judge/criticise the idea of receiving support. Wake up sport!
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Going to print! In Delhi this am, meeting the team from Westland, Amazon, who will publish my new book. T-minus 6-weeks. Cant lie, I’m really excited about it.
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In 2025, success starts with reflection, purpose, and people. Celebrate wins, play to strengths, and engage your team. Start strong! Read more: #Leadership2025 #PurposeDriven #PaddyUpton
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Love this frank quote from @mstarc56. I’ve always believed, at most levels of sport, that the coaches job is to help players to become their own best coach - and then to get ourselves out the way of the athletes development.
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Failure is temporary, as is victory. Character is permanent. It's remembered longer than any result, and speaks louder than any statistics.
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ESPNcricinfo review. “The Barefoot Coach is a book for three kinds of readers. The fan of self-help books, the fan of Indian cricket in its golden period or the Tendulkar era, and the student of coaching. wisdom here from one of the finest in the field”
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Loved this statement from an @tylercowen interview. “The best managers need to be philosophers. People who really understand the human condition.” Beautiful.
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Great to be working with Rahul Dravid again, coaching Delhi Daredevils in #IPL2016. Dravid mentor, Upton head coach
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New appointment as Associate Professor at Deakin University, Aus. Start writing 5 free online team leadership courses. 1st one out in Nov!
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Some thoughts on coaching temporary teams, consisting of diverse individuals.
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9 yrs ago, I was on a very quiet team bus, with a very special team.! Driving past 10’s of 1000’s of Indian cricket fans, en route to play the 2011 cricket World Cup final. The nervous excitement on that bus was incredible!! @Gary_Kirsten @ExploreMikeHorn @sachin_rt @YUVSTRONG12.
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Congrats on an amazing career @ShaneRWatson33 An uncompromising competitor on-the-field, and a sensitive, gentle and caring man off of it. Not always easy being heartfelt in the macho-male sporting world. Was a pleasure and privilege to have worked with you in 5yrs of IPL and BBL
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The role of the coach, captain, leader is not to push, but to inspire. Rather than create fear, it's to foster inner desire. .
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Think about it…. The main thing that makes a holiday a holiday, is that you choose what you do 😀. If what you do on a workday, is something that you choose to do, then almost every day is a holiday!. It’s all in the #Attitude
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It is easy to lose sight of the simple things we already have in pursuit of the bigger things we feel we need.
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Results vs process? What coaches (and parents) value, will have a powerful impact on kids sport participation, and the results they deliver.
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Player-centered Coaching. Ask rather than tell. Focus on growth and learning, not just winning. Athletes are people 1st #PowerOfBlue
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sharing Coaching knowledge w @DrCarolAustin1 Craig Joubert @NeilAndrews65 & 100 schools coaches @PoweradeZA Performance Academy #PowerOfBlue
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The body is our best healer. Sick, sad or sore? Heal the body & mind with good food and lifestyle choices, and the ailment will heal itself!.
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On confidence vs arrogance. ‘I know it well’ = confidence. ‘I know it all’ = arrongace. Applies to most subjects.
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2 #personalmastery is the journey from worrying about what others think or say about us, to knowing that this is their business, not ours.
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Regardless of your age or position in life, it’s useful to question what success looks like for you, checking both what you want, and why you want it?
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Really good insight for ex-players wishing to become coaches. Actually, for all us coaches, by @Grant_Jenkins
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Nelson Mandela may have publicly saved a nation, but in a private moment, he nearly ruined my treasured photo. http://t.co/u70GPx941e.
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Finally! It’s arrived - in stores and on Amazon. Candid insights and lessons from coaching some of the world’s best cricketers.
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Most players falter under pressure, but the greats thrive by focusing on the process, not the result. High-pressure experts deliver when it matters most. #MentalToughness #SportPsychology
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Another successful ‘Winning with Kids’ talk. Coaches: Ask more-tell less. Provide fun. Prepare kids for winning in life. Play multiple sports. More training is NOT better, nor is early-age competition. Mistakes are OK, to be expected and embraced. Thus we learn. And have more FUN
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Looking forward to spending the next 2 days at the @PoweradeZA Academy in Joburg @NeilAndrews65 Craig Joubert
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Under pressure, it's not about not panicking, rather it's about panicking a bit less or a bit later than your opponent.
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Sharing some motivational techniques that work everywhere. Different strokes for different folks, play to strengths, focus on the process, plug into values, character and intentions, and don’t define yourself by results. #TheBarefootCoach
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Love this story, and love #WillSmith shout out equally as much. Athlete showing integrity! One of my favourite actors showing vulnerability, humanness.
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What other people think about you is none of your business.
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In life, as in sport, a team can function at its highest level only when every member is aligned with the overall objective, and is equally focused on bringing their own individual strengths to the table, helping the team achieve success.
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Mental strength is the most over-used and misunderstood concepts in sport. It’s like Superman, known, but a myth.
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And so ends an awesome weekend of learning and sharing. Thanks you @PoweradeZA Performance Academy #PowerOfBlue
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Find links to YouTube, podcast and all the other good stuff right here!
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Opening @ipl match today against @sunrisers. As with any game, favour goes to those best able to keep their focus on the process. Those able to stave off focus from the result, until the moment it arrives. The real art is executing on this simple philosophy. #HallaBol
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