Forrest Griffin Quotes

I think you've gotta believe in yourself, I think you gotta put in a lot of work off the court to make sure you're ready.

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.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

I think I get going because I try not to put added pressure on myself because a lot of times, you can be very good at what you do, but when you get ready, you have to be prepared to get it going.

I'm a strong person, and when I am not in the team, I can motivate myself to keep focused and be prepared for when I get called on.

I believe it when I say I can beat anyone if I have a great training camp.

My mindset is to go out there and be confident, believe in yourself, visualizing success and visualizing plays you're gonna make in games.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.