Graham DeLaet Quotes

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I don't like it hectic; I like to keep it calm and do my thing - play the pass. I think you see the pass if you are in a good state of mind.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

When you're relaxed, you are more decisive.

When you are relaxed, you can focus a lot more easily than when you are hyper and over-energetic. It's important to be "up" for a competition, but you shouldn't have too much energy, because you might not be able to control it. In competitions, it is important to be able to bring the power and energy you are feeling down to a level that you can control. This comes with practice and experience.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Players perform best when their minds are clear.

When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.

You want all players to be free of overthinking. That's when they're in a good place and a good flow.

When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

When I'm relaxed, I play my best tennis.

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.