Patty Berg Quotes

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

Sometimes it is the mentality that is really important. To have players with self-belief makes my job a lot easier, as they are certainly motivated and hungry.

To get to the top, you must have an edge to your game, like Ramos does.

I want to become a world-class player.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.

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

Being champion, there's a different mindset.

I've worked hard and dreamed, and that helped me become one of the best players in the world.

All the truly great players have had to demonstrate their importance and value in the most difficult competition of all.

What it takes to win on the road, it's all mental focus. You have to believe that you can win.

No excuses. Play like a champion.

I just had to get in front of the right people to show my talents off and do what I do best. That's play hard all the time.

I want to be a top player.

Everybody knows that they can be the best player in the team, but if they don't work, then it's not going to be good enough.