Patrick Kane Quotes

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

I feel like you can dominate a game in so many ways. That's just always been my mindset, just play ball. Be a basketball player, and everything will fall into place.

I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.

The Premier League is so competitive so we have to be very attentive, very focused and not relax in any way - especially when it is thought to be a winnable game.

I just have to go out there and play the right style of game and believe I can win.

I don't do nervous, really. You always have to respect your opponent, respect the game of football, and be 100 per cent focused.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.