Quotes About Mindset

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

I approach spring training the same way every year.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.

When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

Typically, I would say that I'm not defined by one loss and I'm not defined by one win. But I'd be lying if I told you I didn't harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.

Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.

There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.

When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.

Honest to God, for me, I've never been a guy to stack projects. A lot of these other guys, they like to do this and then line up what they're doing next and line up what they're doing next. I just can't do it.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

One of the things people don't appreciate is the mental side of things. The taker has to want to be there. He must be comfortable with being in that situation. I didn't mind the pressure, the focus of the whole stadium being on me.

I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.

To take something in the Emirates Stadium is far away from being easy but we don't think about that.

Playing in an empty stadium won't faze me at all.

When I came home, my kids wouldn't know if I went 0-for-4 or 4-for-4. I do not like to lose at anything, but I wouldn't be angry all day... Once I left the stadium, it was over with.

The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player's game.