Pia Wurtzbach Quotes

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

When I'm training; I'm prepared for anything.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

I don't want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against 'Cowboy,' you have to be mentally strong.

My nerves tend to dissipate once the match starts. When I know I've practiced as much as I can and I do my best and leave it all out there, I feel OK no matter what happens.

It's a big moment, a heart-rate moment. It's all in the preparation for me. Watching the various takers, I can prepare as best I can. I can prepare, too, with my own team-mates - they practise, which, in turn, helps me practise trying to save penalties. I want as much confidence as I can in the preparation and then take it from that.

When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown.

If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

If I can train for a contest for a week, it's a guaranteed victory.

If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.

Practice don't win games.

The opponent never matters to me. That's something I've always said.

I remember people saying that Atletico wanted me, that they are a big team, and that it will be a big challenge for me. I don't know why, but I just felt really prepared for it, really confident. I went there and tried to do my best in training as well as learn the language really quickly. That was important, I think.

You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the matches with doubts.

I think I gotta just keep working on knocking down shots and getting stronger.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.