Adrian Lewis Quotes

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

I think every time I step on the court, I'm just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I just try to be the best fighter I can be.

My job is to come out here and compete the best I can, get in the playbook, understand what they want from me, and the rest will take care of itself.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

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 love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

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.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.