Just Fontaine Quotes

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

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 don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.