Kim Yuna Quotes

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

The adrenaline is very important for me when I go in to bat. That makes me tick, makes me think better. When your energy is up and running, you have a much better chance of doing well.

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.

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 perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I'm not nervous, and I'm too relaxed, I don't like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.

I just have to bring the energy and play my game.

There was always a lot of pressure - I fought on Channel 5 in my first fight and got two million views - but luckily I'm the kind of person who thrives under pressure. I use it to fuel my performances and training, knowing that all eyes are on me and that there's a lot to live up to. It made me harder, tougher and more determined.

I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

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 love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don't.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

In a moment, or type of pressure, you just go out, and I play like I always do. Because it's a big moment, I'm not going to shy away and not show my talents. I'll show what I can do and show it every game.

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

When you start the match, you forget that you are No. 1, you have all the titles. You just have the battle ahead in front of you.

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

I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.

When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don't perform at my maximal potential.

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

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.

I work better under pressure.

Whenever I've felt that there was a lot of pressure on me. I perform at my best.

Pressure makes me perform better.

The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.