Naby Keita Quotes

I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.

I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.

I want kids to continue to enjoy our game and benefit from the rewards of playing the ultimate team sport. That's why it's important for young players, parents, and coaches to know about U.S.A. Football's Head Up Football program.

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'

I read Psalms 18 before every game.

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.

People who know me know that I don't talk about the play-offs. It's not an issue for me at all.

I am in a frame where I want to enjoy cricket. Of course, I think about my game: how I got out, what I could have done better. But that I think for half-an-hour and that's enough.

I was always taught coming back from injuries the last thing you want to do is have a mental game going on with yourself and psyching yourself out and you just start thinking about the injury.

It's actually a blessing to be able to walk off that field win, lose or draw. If you walk off that field healthy, that's the important thing.

I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?

I'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

My first game went very well. My teammates told me to be quiet and not to put pressure on myself. I hope to do even more in the future and start scoring goals.

When I step onto the mound for the first time in a game, I remove my cap and look under the brim to read a message I write to myself with a Sharpie each season. It's a private reminder to stop and reflect on how lucky I am to play professional baseball.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.