Psychological Edge Quotes

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

The more you get a batsman out the more it becomes psychological. A batsman starts thinking about it and making something of it in his head.

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

When you score in the first minutes, everything changes.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

Everything Mousasi says only motivates me. I have a win over him, and I think he's a little bothered by it.

Home advantage gives you an advantage.