Gary Woodland Quotes

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.

I'm a guy who likes to have fun, and I like everything normal people like, but I am always quoted before the fight when I'm jet-lagged and focused. In everyday life, I am different.

My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

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.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

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.

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 have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

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

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.