Adam Peaty Quotes

So much of performing is a mind game.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

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.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

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

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.

I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.

I think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I'm on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I'm not, really.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I'm in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.

You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

I never think of who's in the competition. I never let myself get in that frame of mind, worrying about who I'm against.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.

I cannot let my opponents get into my head.