Lin Dan Quotes

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

I can't worry about techs. I've got to play my game.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

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.

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

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

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

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

When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.

I'm somebody that really locks in to play, and it's not easy to say hello to all the ushers and all the people who work around the team and then try to execute the game plan and beat the other team.

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.

It could be very costly if you don't have a clear mind during a tournament.

I don't know how I look when I'm on the court to tell you the truth, I'm just focused.

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

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

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient... you have to be.

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

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

During the decathlon, I always think only of the next event and my personal record.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.