Agnieszka Radwanska Quotes

When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.

At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.

It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

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

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

My first few years in the league, I was relying on my athleticism to get me by, because that's what got me to the NBA. The problem with that is, you end up getting really, really tired by February.

The U.S. Open just takes so much discipline. You have got to be a great putter and just kind of let things roll off your back.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

I see a lot of guys and their stamina is at an all-time low in the fourth quarter, and I feel like mine is still where it was in the first quarter of the game.

Wrestling is one of the hardest things, and it has nothing to do with the extremely hard physical part of it. It has to do with the psychological part of it.

The players have to understand how it feels to be fatigued and then go again.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.

Tennis is a tough sport - a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It's not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn't come easy, you have to work on it.

Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch.

Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. It's a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.

I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.