Chloe Kim Quotes

I don't feel pressure going into games.

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.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

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.

I don't pay any attention to records. I don't want pressure. I just want to get to that line.

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I think that all I can do is try and keep myself stress-free and away from any type of result-orientated thinking, and go and do my work and tell a story.

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.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

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.

I just try to play with more focus on myself; I don't worry too much about the other things that maybe gave me too much pressure in the past.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

I just don't worry about any moment. I just worry about kicking well.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.