Mary Pierce Quotes

I feel like when I'm out there, I'm on the court, I just try to figure it out.

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.

My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win.

Not every pass-rush move is going to work to perfection, so therefore, you've got to figure out what's best for you.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure... and I don't really have those qualities!

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

My main focus is on my game.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.