Mental Game Quotes

Chess is not for timid souls.

But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.

I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.

You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?

Confidence. That's huge as an actor. Confidence can get you a long way. Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work. So it's a head game for me. "Can I really be confident in knowing my skill set is down? Can I perform like I own this role?"

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

This is the fight game. I'm not worried or scared about absolutely anybody who's not talking about me.

I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

I'm trying to be a complete player and have every shot in the game.

Cricket is 90-95 per cent mental. To score runs, you've got to feel good about yourself.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.