Oleksandr Usyk Quotes

It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

I use the computers to maximize my efficiency and establish a baseline for my swing, but once I'm on the course, I don't think about any of that. I just play.

Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.

You put your personal stuff away and concentrate on the team and help out.

Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that's fighting. I'm getting my cardio that way.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

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

I always work on my mind and my game.

Some days it's tough, and I don't want to train my mental game, or I don't want to train my components as hard as I used to.

You have to stay in the moment. Stay focused. Know what you're going to do.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

Training with the best fighters in the world and getting top coaching - I do feel it improved me a lot as a fighter.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

I feel attention sometimes in games, from fans and other players. But I just try to play the way I always have, remain focused, and don't let distractions get in my way.

To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.

I just keep myself focused and try to prepare each week for our games.

If you work hard at something, you can forget everything else.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.