Soccer Golf!

A soccer season feels a bit like a round of golf.  You get about 18 tries and anytime you might crush a drive into the woods, you can't let that negatively influence your next tee shot.  Of course, you learn from it and make adjustments, but you never completely change your technique or approach from hole to hole, or from game to game.  In fact, the challenge is to resist the temptation to make radical changes to your game and have confidence that your preparation and practice and persistence will eventually pay dividends.  You have to realize that how you end each hole, and end the round, is much more important that how you started.