Glenn McGrath Quotes

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

There are various psychological advantages you can take into boxing match. One is getting your opponent to fight with emotion and anger because he hates you.

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.