Wayne Rooney Quotes

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

I'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I don't really listen to music before I go on court.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

Sometimes I watch past goals, but I don't watch them because I think that it'll help me to score in the next game.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

There's a DVD called 'The Secret.' It's like visualization and meditation, certain methods I use before games, visualizing the games before they happen.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

The calmest part of my day is right before a match.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

I was on 'Strictly' because I was getting stage fright. I was taught that I had to imagine what a good outcome would be and be happy with it.

I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I watch the goals to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go.