Nah, intelligence is orthogonal to sports skill, that is, it is not correlated. Plenty of dumb and smart sportsmen. Now, mental fortitude, self-belief, ability

Nah, intelligence is orthogonal to sports skill, that is, it is not correlated. Plenty of dumb and smart sportsmen. Now, mental fortitude, self-belief, ability to perform under pressure, now those things I believe. But none of them are strongly correlated with intelligence.