Anthony Joshua Quotes

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.

I always work on my mind and my game.

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.

One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

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 think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

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.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

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.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

I think about the game plan, and then I go through all the little things that are almost impossible to do. If you go through those things in your mind, you can do them.

Just have to worry about making sure I'm playing my game and doing all that.

I just have to take it race by race, focus on what you can do, and the rest is out of your control.

I just keep myself focused and try to prepare each week for our games.

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

At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

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.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.