mindfulness in sports Quotes

If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.