Pre-Game Routine Quotes

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

If I'm on an away game or on my way to the stadium or on a bus ride, I listen to more mellow music. Laid-back, chill, like The Weeknd, Drake, something like that.

Before every match, I eat pasta with tomato and chicken breast a few hours beforehand. In the hottest months, I choose to drink an energy drink before the match, too, but normally, I drink just water.

I don't believe that playing video games in the locker room is part of earning the right to win.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies.

On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.

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 end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'

I have to pray before I play, and I gotta eat right before I go out there. For a while when I was younger, I would always eat chicken tenders and fries no matter what.

My pre-game before an event is to take a steam and a long hot shower before prepping my skin.

My mindset is always focused, which goes up on match days.

I drink coffee a lot before my games. I take it with cream and sugar.

I'm a very quiet person, and I always try to take the pressure off myself before games.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games.

I'm the type of player that doesn't like to play on full stomach.

On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

I read Psalms 18 before every game.

These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That's not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods and drivers. If you're going to putt, give yourself 10 minutes.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

I'll have a few pints the night before a match.

I eat at certain times. I got to leave the house at certain times. I shower at certain times before the game.