Petra Kvitova Quotes

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.