Top 41 Quotes About Sports Psychology
#1. 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
#2. I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
Michelle Wie
#3. 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
#4. Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.
Amit Ray
#7. 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
#8. The worst thing of having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
Fredrik Backman
#9. If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.
Joey Galloway
#12. Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.
Larry Robinson
#13. The smaller the detail the greater the value.
Doug Johnson
#14. Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
Bill James
#16. If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.
Ron Guidry
#17. Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Henry Iba
#18. I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.
Ray Malavasi
#19. You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Darrell Johnson
#22. Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing.
D.C. Gonzalez
#23. 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
#24. Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.
Fredrik Backman
#25. 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
#26. Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?
Jim Valvano
#28. Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.
Matt Keough
#30. Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
Jade Jones
#31. 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
#32. Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.
Tom Curle
#33. You always catch the wrong players.
Abe Lemons
#34. 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
#35. Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
Henry Iba
#36. It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.
Matt Keough
#37. Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.
Lee MacPhail
#39. The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.
Randy Carlyle
#40. 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
#41. Play him, fine him, and play him again.
Gene Mauch
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