Edwards talks about Rossi's mind games

love Colins eloquent vocabulary

on the ".... you, im gonna kick your ..." part. though i was wishing the article's a bit longer...

excellent! Rossi is the master on so mant levels!

and we didnt knew what colin is saying already? old news imo

Yes he uses mind games sometimes, but many times press make a story out of nothing, like when he said: i,ll have to start 30 seconds before Stoner, if i,m going to win Laguna Seca race in 2008.

Stoner infact had taken the pole by more than 1 second in qualifying, and Rossi simply didn't want to be too ashamed of himself/fans, in case of losing the race by a great margin to Casey. and Casey had also won already the last few gp's before that race, so he thought he wont have a chance of winning it.

not only Rossi thought so, but also most of the commentators thought the same, but when during the race he could fight with Stoner, at once one of the Eurosport comentators said if it was a mind game by Vale.

When the time comes, ie: when he is perceived as a threat, I can't see any of it working on Ben Spies. He served his apprenticeship dealing with similar .....

Colin actually says and interprets the whole mind thing quite well and I am quite pleased to see a mature account of the much talked about 'mind games' by meek journalists. In my opinion, there is no such thing as a 'mind game' in one's mind.. if a rider cannot take on Rossi, he says it is Rossi playing mind games; or they might even say Rossi is a telepath and Dorna will consider banning telepaths and telekinesis in the squad. Any sport is not all muscle, it has the mind at play. Look at Rafael Nadal (who is my favourite and love his game albeit -- perhaps the only brawn with brains tennis has seen in a while; wish he'd stayed longer in the sport) -- there is only so much muscle can get you, especially if one is considering playing humans, or well to be more apt, robots..

mind games!.................. nahhhhhh. he don't need to play no stinking mind games...

It's easy to play mindgames when you are the fastest and most formidable on the track. Simply being completely comfortable with his own performance is a mind game in itself. Having this attitude when you aren't the best rider would simply be dismissed as arrogance.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (frosty58 @ Apr 9 2010, 03:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>mind games!.................. nahhhhhh. he don't need to play no stinking mind games...

Speaking of Rossi, Spies and mindgames...

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2010/Apr/100408rydernotes.htm

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>Ah, the start of the season. You know you're back in the groove when you spend half an hour hanging around outside a portacabin waiting for a rider to turn up for his press briefing. And you're certain it's game on when Valentino Rossi starts the mind games. It was only a minor moment but instructive none the less.

The target was Ben Spies at the Thursday press conference that is always the first official event of a GP. Vale had answered a few questions from official Emcee Nick Harris followed by Casey Stoner, complete with d'Artagnan style goatee (apparently his wife likes it), and Andrea Dovizioso. Ben's turn next. He's a few sentences in when Vale decides to have a word with Dovi and turns to whisper in his countryman's ear. The sound of camera shutters clicking promptly drowns out anything Ben is saying.

Remember that Valentino never does anything by accident; it was a small incident but could be read as an indication that Mr Spies is well and truly on the Rossi radar.

Did Ben notice? Of course he did. Did it bother him? Of course not. "Remember who my teammate was back in the States?". Quite.

come on folks...Rossi doesn't play mind game...they are called Jedi mind tricks...geez get it right....

"this isn't the world title you were looking for"

What I'm looking at rather than the press conference is Rossi publicly stating he is concerned for Simoncelli & his lack of pace. What an odd thing to do to a mate, publicly say how .... he is. It seems such a strange thing to do that there must be a motive right?

Oh & it's not a misquote or an answer to a direct question as it comes from his official column for Yamaha.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Apr 9 2010, 04:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>What I'm looking at rather than the press conference is Rossi publicly stating he is concerned for Simoncelli & his lack of pace. What an odd thing to do to a mate, publicly say how .... he is. It seems such a strange thing to do that there must be a motive right?

Oh & it's not a misquote or an answer to a direct question as it comes from his official column for Yamaha.


yes it's called mind games. or maybe he was supporting him this way.

wasn't he playing a mind game when he came in on that scooter?