Pee Wee Reese Quotes

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

Tennis is a tough sport - a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It's not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn't come easy, you have to work on it.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient... you have to be.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

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.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

Fans were booing me at one point. I just kept working, that's the main thing. I'm not going to let that deteriorate my game.

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

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.