Edwin Moses Quotes

Sometimes, how I said already, I just wake up and play good. And sometimes I'm so tired.

It's all mental. I just have to worry about my game.

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is also true.

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.

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

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.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

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.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

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

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

My mentality is my biggest strength.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

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'm confident in all my fights. You have to be. You have to put any negative thoughts aside.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.