Granit Xhaka Quotes

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

For me, every tournament is important, and I feel that if I don't go into them with 100 per cent focus, I will not be ready for the Grand Slams.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.

Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.

I like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

I want to give 100 per cent every day whether it's training, a cup final or a friendly.

It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.

You can't have two or three games where you let your level drop.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

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.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.