Smriti Mandhana Quotes

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

I just want to get better and I love football.

People might think it's all about getting up for a game but it's often the opposite.

I'm just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that's all I can really focus on.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

At the time, when I was growing up, my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

I didn't really think I was really good, I was just playing the game because I enjoyed playing it with my friends. Then once I started playing organized soccer, parents, coaches and other teammates were telling me to keep going and that I could become something so I started believing it.

I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I don't think I'm successful.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.