Zach Johnson Quotes

I prepare for every game the same.

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

I think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

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.

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.

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.

Regardless of what the stakes are, our attitude and our mindset doesn't change.

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

You have to believe you can play at places like Anfield or Old Trafford, because if you don't who will?

I make 18 three-footers after every round. It's just something that helps me focus on routine, and helps me hear the ball go in the hole. It's something I do every day.

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

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.

I have to believe in my process and I know I follow a certain pattern to score runs. I have to believe that I will be getting runs if I have a certain mindset and I know I will.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

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.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.