Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

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

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.

We try not to let pressure get into our heads and play the way we usually do.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

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.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

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.

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

When you play angry, you can't focus.

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.

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.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.