Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

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

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

One of my goals is to become the perfect player but you'll never reach that goal if your mindset is not right, I think.

I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself strongly.

I'm just trying keep focused and believe in myself, that's been my game plan.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I always work on my mind and my game.

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.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

You have to have the right mind-set.

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.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

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 think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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