Jennifer Capriati Quotes

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.

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.

For me, I'm more reserved and focused once I get to the game.

It is important that whenever you do get opportunities to practice, just get in some batting and be in a place where you feel if you get a chance to play, you can do well. It's important to be in that zone and be as practically ready as possible.

When I prepare for a match, it's like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.

I believe it when I say I can beat anyone if I have a great training camp.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

In order to play your best during a game, you need to 'look good, feel good, play good.'

The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

When you play well, when you perform, you have to show every game that you are that good.

I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.

When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.

I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.