Jason Giambi Quotes

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

The more reps you get, the more you calm down and the less thinking you're doing. Then you just go out and play.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

How you practice in nets matters a lot.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.

I prepare for every game the same.

I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.

My approach to games is much better and I am going into games with the right preparation and I am more relaxed, rather than thinking about things too much.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

You don't ever want to be a mechanical basketball player, but as far as technique and things, I like to have certain check points in my shot, certain things that I can count on and think about. It kind of helps me to be consistent.

Sometimes, you tend to hold back, maybe because you have lost a few wickets or something. But when I bat, I'm never shy of doing what my mind says.

When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.

If you have an open shot, and you're a shooter, and you've put hours and hours on the practice court shooting the ball, you shoot the ball in the game. It's just that simple.

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

Shooting is all about rhythm and confidence, and sometimes those are the last things that get there.

I try to take as many reps as I can, whether it's on a video game, playing EA 'Madden Football' or in the playbook, just drawing it or just visualizing it in my head.

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

You've got to do it in practice first.

It's interesting: I never got stressed before wrestling matches. I always felt completely confident that I had done everything I could do, all my mental preparations when I sat down and envisioned the match, so I never felt stressed.