Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

How you practice in nets matters a lot.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

You always want to be working, doing reps, but there is also a time you need the mental reps.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

The secret is to listen, open your mind, listen to the pros. With the help of the UFC's Performance Institute, too. Listening to my coaches and listening to my body, too. Having discipline. It's not just listening, too, because sometimes people have the knowledge but don't know how to use it. You need to be able to put that to practice.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

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.

There's no offseason in this business. I'm just going to make sure I train my butt off in and out of the ring.

Some days it's tough, and I don't want to train my mental game, or I don't want to train my components as hard as I used to.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

In sports, everything is a process.

I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.

I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.

Hard work doesn't start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.