Mirko Cro Cop Quotes

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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.

Whatever I am, it's natural... I don't have to pretend to be aggressive, don't have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I know my game really well and I'm relatively comfortable in most situations.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

I never focus on my opponent - I focus more on myself: knowing what my strengths are, where I can take the fight, how I can win the fight, and the intensity that I'm going to bring to a fight.

I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you've just got to look like you're fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.

If people want to say nasty things that's a good thing in a way because it means people will underestimate me come fight night.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

If I play against you the first time - or it doesn't even have to be the first time - and you want to be all physical and just talk, or talking trash or whatever, it just gets me going.

I like to get in the mindset of the honey badger when I go into contact. There's no doubts, no fears. If you can do that as a human, you're killin' it.

I learned, for me to play at my best, I need to play with an edge.

I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.