Kevin Magnussen Quotes

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.

You want to have a great pre-season, you want to play games.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the matches with doubts.

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.

It's tough when you don't know if you're going to play or when you're going to play. But keeping the consistency and keeping in shape is important.

You never know what could happen. Someone could get injured early in the game, so everyone knows they have to be ready. Anyone can come on at any stage in the game and make the difference.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

I know I have to be ready for every single ball, every pass, every challenge. Everything has to be at 100%.

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.

I've done as much as I could and as hard as I've worked to try to be ready, but we'll never know until I actually play.

When it comes to football, I always prepare like I'm going to be the guy.

Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.

Preparation starts after the game before.

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.

This is football. This is my job. At the same time there's a good balance you can have with having fun and getting prepared and ready for the game.

I don't know how far, I don't know where I'm going to be or where I'm going to go, but I know this - if a team comes to grab me, I know they're going to get a special player, and I'm ready to show them what I can do and make sure I can contribute.

With taekwondo, anything can happen, really. You get bad days; you get good days of training, so you've just got to hope that you're on it on your day.

In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.

I prepare the same for every opponent.

One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

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

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.

Football can give everyone who loves the game their great moments and most dreadful disappointments. All it takes is a couple of bad injuries or decisions to turn a season and that's just the unforgiving nature of sport.