I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.
Before important games, I don't change my preparation.
I went last week to get hypnotized. To quit smoking. And the hypnotist said, 'The reason you smoke is you're bitter and depressed.' No, the reason I smoke is the little sucker tastes so good.
If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.
But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.
The calmest part of my day is right before a match.
You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it.
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.
In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
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.
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.
I don't get nervous before the match. I try to act the same and stay normal right before entrance. I don't want to do anything special, so I want to act normal before a match.
