Cris Carter Quotes

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

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.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.