Charles Leclerc Quotes

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

The bigger the bet, the better I played.

When you put your helmet on and you're in the race, I find that's just everything there is in the world.

When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

I don't mind being distracted.

I've got to win every race.

When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there's 10,000 people or more, you don't necessarily look at the people. The only time there's a realization that there's that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.