Jay Wright Quotes

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Clarity affords focus.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

A full mind is an empty bat.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I know how to prepare my head.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.