Ashton Eaton Quotes

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

Inner demons? Got none of them.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

Courage is largely habits and self confidence.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

You enter strong and you exit strong, and you're going to be OK.

To play with pressure is always a good thing. I like to play with pressure.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

I think every player hits a little bit of doubt. But if you are strong, you are supposed to be strong mentally because that's our job and you know what you can do. So you are like, 'A'ight cool, I'ma be all right. I'm going to figure this out.'

Self-belief is certainly an issue you need to make sure you look after when you've lost heavily in two games.

I've always been a guy that, I don't know, just attacks pressure.

I'm confident in all my fights. You have to be. You have to put any negative thoughts aside.

Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

People in my life have either supported me or doubted me. The only people I hear are the doubters. So, for me, I look at life, and I don't feel like I have anything to prove, but I have an opportunity.

You can find yourself doubting yourself. But that's when you need to keep faith and realise everything is going to be okay. You work hard in training and keep doing the things you're good at.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

You are always bigger than the problem, the problem can never be bigger than you.

In my mind, I've never lost a fight.

Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I'm so nervous, or I feel like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.'