Chico Hamilton Quotes

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

Being involved in sports, you think less about how your body looks and more how it performs.

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.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.

When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

If a boy hopes to be a good football player, the main things he needs are brains, courage, self-restraint, coordination, fire of nervous energy and an unselfish point of view, ready to sacrifice for the team as a whole. Of course, he must have a bit of speed and a bit of physique, but then these things are taken for granted.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

It's not easy, but I play with my body, and I can feel how important it is to get 100 percent fit to play. This is an important thing to play in the Premier League.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

Been dealing with pressure since I've been playing sports, so that's why I play the position. It's a pressure-packed position and I love it.

I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

I just enjoy training. I enjoy being there, enjoy coming into games and training sessions where I can feel that I'm as good or better than the players I have to play against or with.

At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.