David Millar Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

Back in 2014, I felt like I was ready to win a world title. I felt like I was prepared and I was as good as anyone else, but I knew I didn't have the equipment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

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.

In spring training, I just try to spread everything out so I can be 100 percent before the season starts. I don't want to start feeling like I don't get it once the season starts. I want to be 100 percent on Opening Day.

I think our sport evolves as the talent evolves and the mindset evolves.

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

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

There's always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.