Inzamam-ul-Haq Quotes

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I just keep myself focused and try to prepare each week for our games.

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.

Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.