Sachin Tendulkar Quotes

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

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.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

I can't worry about techs. I've got to play my game.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

No talking has ever gotten me out of my game. The things that have gotten me out of my game in the past have definitely not been talking.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

It could be very costly if you don't have a clear mind during a tournament.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.

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