Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture of the guy and put it on my refrigerator.

It's the warm-up in the changing room when I switch on. I don't even think about the fight until then. Some fighters are bouncing about the walls, but I switch off. Then it's like someone flicks a switch in me.

The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It's a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.

You don't want to be going into any fight thinking you've got to get a knockout, or force a stoppage, because it takes you out of your gameplan.

I've actually picked up a lot of good habits from just watching film from Demetrious Johnson.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

Going into the UFC debut, you have to wonder what's going on, what's the workout going to be like. It's just an honor to be at an open workout.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

Every fight day, I just stay in my room the entire day, and I just stay in bed. I sleep as late as I can, which usually isn't very late; I'm kind of an early riser. But I try to just stay there in bed. I don't usually eat the day of the fight. I don't eat until after the fight.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

I knew Ali would beat Foreman - absolutely. At Deer Lake, his fight camp in Pennsylvania, his training sessions were awesome.

I'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

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

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.

If I had the opportunity to fight Khabib, or anyone ranked No. 1 - I've played that in my head a million times.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.