Ian Thorpe Quotes

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

I hope so. God, I've practiced so much that I you don't want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game today. I know how hard it is to pull off those great shots, and I know how easy it is to miss, so I'm more aware of these things. But I'm so happy I'm at the age I am right now because I had such a great run and I know there's still more possible.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true among exercisers at all levels, despite their different goals. A major element in mental training is visualization ... Visualizing a positive outcome can create a pattern of success, as long as you set realistic and specific goals.

When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

Being a great physical athlete is wonderful, and you need it at this level to be able to train and prepare accordingly. But the closer it comes time to perform, the ratio switches. When you're in camp, it's 90 percent physical and 10 percent mental. But as you get to fight night, it's the opposite.

I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.

Everyone works so hard on their game and on their body. Most of the time, it comes down to who is more relaxed mentally; on the court while playing and off the court.

Sometimes I don't realize the things I do on the court.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

I start kind of stiff, and then I understand the movement, the distance, and then I can start loosening up. That's how fighting should be. That's how I try to keep my mind.

The more cricket you play in your head, the less you perform on the field. So let cricket, the sport, be on the field.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

Go out and do your drills that you do to try to get better. You lift your weights, try to take things from the classroom to grass, try to get better every day.

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