Lamar Odom Quotes

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

I hope so. God, I've practiced so much that I you don't want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game today. I know how hard it is to pull off those great shots, and I know how easy it is to miss, so I'm more aware of these things. But I'm so happy I'm at the age I am right now because I had such a great run and I know there's still more possible.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

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.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

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.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

I try not to think about the person, just their tactics, their weaknesses and strengths. I play against the ball.

Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.

In football, 80% of the game is played in your head; the other 20% is physical and tactical.

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.

I think the mental aspect of the game is huge.

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.