Tom Watson Quotes

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

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

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.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

For me, it's important to relax and concentrate on what I want to do.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

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.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

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

Adrenaline is a huge deal. All of a sudden you start hitting the golf ball a little bit farther. You learn to stay within yourself and what you have to do to calm yourself down and stay within your game plan.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I know I perform best when I stay calm.

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.