Kyle Edmund Quotes

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

I have to step up and do well in every match I get to play.

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

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I'm in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

I think I play better when people say keep showing us what you've got, keep showing us. And whatever's going to get me to play at a high level is what I want to do.

I will put pressure on myself to play good every game.

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

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

We must take on each match as best we can and try to recover from each as quickly as possible.

I feel confident of being No. 1, but I know I can't let myself play a few bad games.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

I wanted to challenge myself to reach my full potential as a player.

I just try to be the best fighter I can be.

I just focus and concern myself with playing as I can.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.