Ian Millar Quotes

Before the game, getting guys in the right mindset and confident - you play well when you're confident. People can say 'cockiness' or whatever, but there are results when you play with a confidence and you believe in yourself.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

As a driver, you've always got to believe in your heart that you've got what it takes to win it. You've always got to believe in yourself. You've always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You've always got to believe in the positives.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

My mindset is to go out there and be confident, believe in yourself, visualizing success and visualizing plays you're gonna make in games.

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

You always have to believe in yourself! I think that is the most important thing.

I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself strongly.

You don't go into a game thinking, 'I'm not confident.' You always think you're going to win.

There is always a dream, for me, in the locker room before matches as well during the day. If you have a strong mind, a strong tendency to keep you strong, I think your dream is coming.

I never think I'm going to lose.

That's why I won: because I believed I had a chance.

It's interesting: I never got stressed before wrestling matches. I always felt completely confident that I had done everything I could do, all my mental preparations when I sat down and envisioned the match, so I never felt stressed.

That's the No. 1 thing you need to have, to believe you can win.

I have this mindset and mentality every time I touch the score, and I really truly believe that. It's something I try to do a little too much.

And I know it's an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence - cliche or not, it's still true.

I know how good I can be. I'm not being big-headed. I think all players have to have that confidence and self-belief.