Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

When I play at my best is when I play with the least amount of inhibition, when I think less.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.

I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

I'm constantly surprised by... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.

One works without thinking how to work.

As an athlete there are times in your career where, during a game, any decision you make seems to be the right one. The bowler bowls where you want, you don't have to think and you are so 'in the zone' that you are not aware of anything else around you.

In any sport, you're at your best when you're playing without thinking too much.

I do a lot of things instinctively.