Jon Jones Quotes

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

I prepare so I can be in the whole game.

If you are busy with a good performance, something you can control, then the chance to win the game is much bigger.

I always remind myself the only thing that matters is I perform on track and that's all I need to do.

I don't focus on how I'm gonna get the finish or how I would like to get the finish. I focus on just my game plan that I've gone over with myself, my coaches. If the finish comes it comes.

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

Once I go into these fights, and we have to go through the ringer to prepare for them, and we know I'm not 100 percent going in, winning is the most important thing, and dominating is the most important thing, and that's what we've been doing.

I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.

Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.