Maurice Greene Quotes

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

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

Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

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 think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

When you line up on the track, you want to have done your homework, be aware of what they are capable of. You think about everything. It's like taking a journey, innit?

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.

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

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

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

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

I don't have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win.

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.

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

Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

I just keep myself focused and try to prepare each week for our games.