Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

The want to get more runs increases when there is a dearth of it. At those times, it is important to be patient and keep your calm.

I am a relaxed guy. I play that way, and I can't change my style. I watch games and see guys who panic on the ball - they look so nervous. I can be calm, because I sometimes know what I want to do before the ball comes to me.

As a fan, Kirk Cousins has this very quiet, composed, confident demeanor that seems to be pretty even-keeled. We don't see him show a ton of emotion. I think that's part of what makes him successful, that he's able to not get too high or too low throughout the course of the game and he keeps his head down, keeps plugging away.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

All I'm focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.