Tyson Gay Quotes

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

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

I cannot control what people think. But I can control myself and my aim, and my head is focused on trying to win trophies.

A lot of people say they're competitive, and they think that means they scream and yell when they lose. I'm not like that. I don't scream and yell. I just win. At anything I do, I win.

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.

We try to keep our heads cool and our chins up to win every weekend. Sometimes it works better than others but you have to focus on the positive side so for that next game you still have the right state of mind.

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

I always found it hard to motivate myself.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

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

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

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

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

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