Vijay Singh Quotes

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

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.

Golf is so mental. It gets my mind right before the game.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.

Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.

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.

My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

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

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.