Maya Moore Quotes

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

When it comes to football, I always prepare like I'm going to be the guy.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

My biggest thing I've learned is just putting time into getting ready. When we're young, you just go on the court and just hoop. But I think as you get older, it's more about, making sure everything is firing and making sure everything is ready to go and warmed up.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

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.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

I'm not feeling much pressure for the Olympics because I think I already have done many things in my career. I will try to enjoy my second Olympics.