Someone sent me a text the other day about all the trash talking during the Super Bowl and how it seemed to bother some of the players.

As a sports fan, I’ve watched the power of words throughout the years and remember that Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan, just to name a couple of athletes, also used this tactic to intimidate and frustrate the opposition. The idea is to lure someone you are battling against into listening to what you are saying in order to distract and confuse them. This attempt to rattle our competitor is associated with words such as discredit, mock, slander, belittle,

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