Amanda Beard Quotes

I'm not the type of player to let the 3s get me down: 'Oh, I'm missing a couple of 3s. I don't want to do this no more.' No, I'm out there playing basketball, and I'm not going to let that get me down.

Fans were booing me at one point. I just kept working, that's the main thing. I'm not going to let that deteriorate my game.

Everyone will say something about confidence or something if you miss a couple shots. You've just got to keep shooting.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

Some of the best cricketers in the world were very quiet on the field but came across in a way that made it very hard to sledge them. It went in one ear and out the other.

I don't lose sleep about what people say about me. It's football.

I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those things, really get to me.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

I just go out there and play basketball. I'm not worried about missing. I just got to be thinking about the next shot.

Self-belief is certainly an issue you need to make sure you look after when you've lost heavily in two games.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

I feel that I can make certain shots, tough shots, and that I can play better when things aren't going well.

I don't talk that much when I do well and I try to talk even less when I'm not doing well. All that really matters is the next game and helping us win.

I think I have become mentally stronger now, and I have full confidence that I can finish close matches.

If I have learned anything from my coaches, it's that the next game is the most important. The next game is the one that gives you confidence or gets you into trouble.

I have to be mentally right every time I take the floor.

I'm lucky enough to be mentally strong, which I think is fundamental for a goalkeeper.