Valentina Shevchenko Quotes

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

When you train outside of camp, it's fun, I'm playing around, I'm working hard but I'm having fun. When I get into that camp it's 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you're trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.

A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.

Every time I write down my goals, I realize that I have to hit the gym. I have to eat right. I have to improve in the ring. I have to give it 100%. I have to improve on my promos. These are the things that go through my head daily because I work hard on them.

Some days it's tough, and I don't want to train my mental game, or I don't want to train my components as hard as I used to.

I watch the goals to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

As fighters we want to do the best we can, so we visualize what we want to happen.

I think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

Sometimes I watch past goals, but I don't watch them because I think that it'll help me to score in the next game.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.