Derek Brunson Quotes

You have to take each match as it comes.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

The most important thing is to take it game by game. I've always done that my whole career. Game by game, step by step, and not looking too far into the future.

Especially in this league, you can have a tendency to look ahead, but really, it's about one taking one day at a time, one game at a time.

You've got to take every single play at a time, every practice at a time. You can't look forward, because you start putting too much pressure on yourself, you start to feel it.

I am just focusing on one match at a time.

Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.

I just look at what's ahead of me. I don't think about, 'For my legacy, I need to do this, this, and this.' I just focus on every fight and how to win that fight.

At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

Every single match, every single point, I have to concentrate.

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

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I know how to prepare my head.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.