The quiet ones

I’ve worked with some of the loudest personalities in professional sport.

Big characters.

Big presence.

Big opinions.

But the players who have stayed with me longest?

Almost always the quiet ones.

The ones who said little and observed everything.

Who asked one precise question at the end of a session.

Who stayed behind when everyone else had gone.

Not to impress.

Just to understand something a little better.

Noise is easy.

Presence is rare.

And in 27 years I’ve never met a truly great performer who confused the two.