Nick Foles Quotes

All I got to say is I've got to put myself mentally and physically in a position where I can play at a high level and help my team win and that's what I plan on doing.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

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.

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

Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

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

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

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 know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

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

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

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

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

I think if you think that far ahead about the first four, or to be champions, that is something you cannot control. You can control the training, and then the performance will come game by game, and do not think that far ahead.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

My main focus is, 'What can I do today to help the team win the ballgame?' You have those blinders on. It helps you focus.

When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.

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

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.