Judd Trump Quotes

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

I think it is always a challenge when you go and play abroad. You are competing against the home team, and they know the conditions well. Their fast bowlers always know which length to bowl and also the areas in which they need to bowl.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

Every year it happens. When I'm not putting up big numbers, I start hearing it - that I'm too old, that time finally has caught up with me.

It's always difficult, when you have such a quick turnaround and a long flight, to try to get ready for a game so quickly.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

People expect that you will play well and score a lot of goals, but it is not always possible.

I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.

A football player at any level must set goals.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I can bring a 10 to any important game.

Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

Every rookie, every player, is going to go through their struggles throughout the season.

It's a tough grind sometimes. Playing 82 games and the travel, it can wear you down. It's definitely something you have to learn and adjust to. If you don't, you can play your way out of the league very quickly.

Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked.

I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

You really don't believe that winning at home or winning on the road makes a difference. The Lakers have that mind-set. They don't look at it as 'We're at home, we're on the road.'