John Elway Quotes

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

I always work on my mind and my game.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

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

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

I think about the game plan, and then I go through all the little things that are almost impossible to do. If you go through those things in your mind, you can do them.

One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.

I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.

I just have to take it race by race, focus on what you can do, and the rest is out of your control.

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

I think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.