John Matuszak Quotes

I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

Everything in your preparation, in your mind is we're gonna win this game. You don't really even think of the other side.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

You have to have the right mind-set.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

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

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

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.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

I prepare for every game the same.

I think I get going because I try not to put added pressure on myself because a lot of times, you can be very good at what you do, but when you get ready, you have to be prepared to get it going.

There's a reason that I have confidence out there, and it's about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we've got to stick with that kind of thought process.

When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.