Bhuvneshwar Kumar Quotes

It's tough when you don't know if you're going to play or when you're going to play. But keeping the consistency and keeping in shape is important.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.

All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.

I just keep myself focused and try to prepare each week for our games.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I have to be prepared always and be at my best. I looked to bat 50 overs and score as many possible. It may not happen all the time, but whenever I see the opportunity, I try to make the most of it.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

I'm a strong person, and when I am not in the team, I can motivate myself to keep focused and be prepared for when I get called on.

At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentally prepared. I would be lying if I said it doesn't affect your performance. But the sooner you get over it, the better. So you discipline yourself. That is why fitness counts.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.

There's a reason that I have confidence out there, and it's about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we've got to stick with that kind of thought process.

For me, it's about controlling what I can control. I can't control where I'm going to be put on the pitch. I can only control my effort and my ability to embrace anything thrown at me.

When I'm training; I'm prepared for anything.

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

We must take on each match as best we can and try to recover from each as quickly as possible.

How can you change things when you are under pressure? You don't tell a player who keeps giving the ball away not to touch the ball; you keep training and working hard.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

So, I just always try to prepare myself like I'm going to play even when I wasn't going to play. And when I wasn't playing, my thing is, I was always enjoying the team's success, always enjoying somebody else's success.

Training camp for me is a day-by-day thing. It's a grind. If you lose focus on what you're trying to work on, you won't be there mentally, and it'll be tough physically.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'