Optimal State Quotes

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

When you feel like you are performing at your best, it's a beautiful feeling.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

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

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

You have to feel comfortable - then you can perform better.

I think in 1997, I was in my absolute prime. I was never bitter; I was uninjured. I was ready to go and ready to make some serious changes to make a difference to have my all-time favorite matches that I would have loved to have.

Be at your best at all times.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

I know I perform best when I stay calm.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

God mode is something that I've always tried to unlock within myself.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

You want all players to be free of overthinking. That's when they're in a good place and a good flow.