Brad Rutter Quotes

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

When you're clicking, you're not making mental mistakes. You're going out there. You're lining up fast.

You get a good win, you take extra confidence into the next game and it shows in the result. You end up with a snowball effect. You are in a rhythm where everything is going well. But, if you start losing games, one thing can lead to another in a bad way and, if you begin to believe nothing is going for you, it can be dangerous.

Shooting is all about rhythm and confidence, and sometimes those are the last things that get there.

Confidence and momentum are huge in sport.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

When you win the Cup, you need everything to line up. You need to get lucky, you need guys to stay healthy, you need guys to play well at the right time.

Hitting is not an exact science.

As soon as I get in a rhythm, I'm very hard to stop.

It's hard getting the rhythm when you're not seeing the ball go through the basket.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.