George Blagden Quotes

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

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 try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Practice whatever the big truth is so that you can say it in forty seconds on camera.

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

There is a need to be the best you can be. You can't panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I'm very nervous, but I'll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

You should wake up in the morning and say, 'What do I want to do today? What's going to make me happy?'

One of my goals is to become the perfect player but you'll never reach that goal if your mindset is not right, I think.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself strongly.

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

I tell myself, 'I'm the greatest, and this is what you need to do.'

You can do anything. Put the time in to do it, and you could do it.

Life is not a waste of time.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.