Quotes & Sayings About Sports Psychology

Winning is a great deodorant. — John Madden

Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing. — D.C. Gonzalez

I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy! — Gigi Hadid

My instincts have never lies to me. — Tiger Woods

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink. — Tom Curle

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it. — Ray Malavasi

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard. — Bill James

Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was one of my most draining flaws and he again used three groups to clarify my thinking. There would always be some people, Steve said, who would care about me and love me. In contrast there would also be a select group of people who would never warm to me - no matter what I did. And in the middle came the overwhelming mass who were largely indifferent to any of my failures or triumphs. I needed to understand that most people didn't really care what I did or said. All my anguish about how they might perceive me was redundant. Steve helped me realize that I spent too much time trying to please those oblivious people in the middle or, more problematically, the small group who would never change their critical opinion of me. I should concentrate on the people who really did show concern for me. — Victoria Pendleton

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts. — Randy Carlyle

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch. — Matt Keough

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. — Martin Seligman

Work hard to make things easier. — Pete Carril

The worst thing of having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. — Fredrik Backman

In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!). — Judit Polgar

The rush lifts him up, his endorphins are bubbling, and afterward he will remember thinking: "How can anyone possibly experience this without thinking he's a god? — Fredrik Backman

You always catch the wrong players. — Abe Lemons

Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice. — Jade Jones

We set the table, but no one ate. — Johnny Oates

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person. — Michelle Wie

There is no such thing as a successful defense. — George S. Patton

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be. — Scott Hamilton

When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a debate is like a sports competition, and no one likes to lose. So even if you make a good point, the other person isn't going to congratulate you. They are thinking about revenge. — Nouman Ali Khan

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race. — Henry Iba

Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment — Libby Trickett

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. — Darrell Johnson

Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with. — Fredrik Backman

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi. — Henry Iba

A champion always prepares to win. — D.C. Gonzalez

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether. — Ron Guidry

Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment. — Amit Ray

Blame is the cowards way out. — Elvin Hayes

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires. — Lee MacPhail

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll. — Al Arbour

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' — Earl Weaver

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. — Matt Keough

Awareness is the novelty of our youth — Brian Triptow

The smaller the detail the greater the value. — Doug Johnson

Play him, fine him, and play him again. — Gene Mauch

He has the players too happy. — Red Auerbach

Surely the greatest tragedy for men in regard to the feminine principle is that their fear alienates them from their own anima, the principle of relatedness, feeling and connection to the life force. This alienation from self obliges alienation from other men as well. Often their only connection with each other comes through superficial talk about outer events, such as sports and politics. — James Hollis

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there. — Joey Galloway

My instincts have never lied to me. — Tiger Woods

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around. — Larry Robinson

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone? — Jim Valvano