Owen Farrell Quotes

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

For me, I'm more reserved and focused once I get to the game.

People might think it's all about getting up for a game but it's often the opposite.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.

Before important games, I don't change my preparation.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can't play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash - that's how I get myself going.

I don't know if that's going to disappoint anybody out there, but I was - I have a very rigorous warmup where I get a good sweat going before a match to prepare for battle. That is what people see; that is what people mistake for dirtiness.

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.

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.

Everyone works so hard on their game and on their body. Most of the time, it comes down to who is more relaxed mentally; on the court while playing and off the court.

When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.