Dan Millman Quotes

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

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 have confidence in my ability, and I try to isolate myself from everything going on around me.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I know how to prepare my head.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

You can see when people's locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

The advantage I have over every other fighter is my mentality.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

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.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

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.

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