Nate Holland Quotes

Fight night, I have to go out there and perform. I have to go out there and do what I've been trained to do. It has to come my way. I have to go out there and take it.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

I let my racket do the talking.

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.

You have a lot of pressure in football.

From my first fight, I loved being in the ring. I tune everything out - the lights, the smells, the noise - so I'm in this zone where I'm performing only for myself.

People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.