Dion Waiters Quotes

When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

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

I don't really listen to music before I go on court.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

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

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.