Lothar Matthaus Quotes

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

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.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

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 concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.