Ashley Young Quotes

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.

Any time I push through a fear, I'm proud of that.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

I've seen the worst. In my head, I've seen the worst. When I go into a fight, I'm all right. You know what I'm saying? I've already made it.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

You can't fight if you're nervous.

In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.

I was young and playing against big players and big clubs. In the beginning, I was thinking they were better than me, and maybe I was a bit scared, also.

Cricket is 90-95 per cent mental. To score runs, you've got to feel good about yourself.

How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. How good of a putter and chipper you are. How you've got this. You can beat the best players in the world. You've got all the talent. You just have to believe in yourself.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

The adrenaline is very important for me when I go in to bat. That makes me tick, makes me think better. When your energy is up and running, you have a much better chance of doing well.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

Early on, when I was playing the one-day stuff a few years ago and had a really poor start to my career, it was actually when I stopped worrying about getting dropped and about all the things that might go wrong that I started playing better.

I wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.

With Masvidal, I dropped him and it's the first time I'd ever dropped anyone in my life. I kind of started to turn the corner after that, and it was just a realization that if my hands were a weakness, it was only because I didn't believe in them. I had the talent to do it.

Sometimes I watch past goals, but I don't watch them because I think that it'll help me to score in the next game.

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'