SUCCESS FROM A PROCESS POINT OF VIEW

'Though he says there isn't anything secret about it, it is the simple application of method. Plus a belief in this presiding psychology: a sports practitioner simply needs to be the best they can be and then everything else will follow.
"You can't do better than your best," he says. "So what we have to do is ensure that every single rider performs at the absolute best of their ability. If that ability is going to be good enough then fantastic, but if it is not, it's not."
That doesn't sound particularly revolutionary. It sounds, in fact, more like a prep school games master telling his losing under-10 side that the score really isn't important, it's the taking part that counts.
"I know it sounds a bit woolly, but I know what we are saying. If Bradley [Wiggins] can be his absolute best throughout the Tour and perform to the highest level he can perform, that is success from a process point of view. If you start looking at the outcome in terms of just the result it is impacted on by so many other variables that you are putting yourself and your team under an massive amount of unnecessary pressure. The one thing you are in charge of is being your best." '

Source: Dave Brailsford http://www.telegraph.co.uk