Johan Santana Quotes

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can't miss.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Just go out there and do what you have to do.

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

When you're clicking, you're not making mental mistakes. You're going out there. You're lining up fast.

I let my racket do the talking.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

Obviously, if I start bowling more, I will get better. To bowl more, I must be effective whenever I get to bowl - it doesn't matter if it is the 40th or the 100th over.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.

There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.