It’s such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you’re trying to achieve.

~ Lee Westwood

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn’t change anything.

~ Natalie du Toit

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you’ve got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

~ Sachin Tendulkar

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

~ Sloane Stephens

I struggled many times when maybe it didn’t look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

~ Ryne Sandberg

When you make mistakes during routines, it’s not easy getting through them.

~ Alicia Sacramone

Federer won’t let age, ranking deter him at US Open

By The Canadian Post, TSN.ca
Originally Published: 24 August 2013

NEW YORK — The numbers are not the sort that Roger Federer likes to see beside his name.

One of them — his age, 32 — he cannot control.

The other — his ranking, No. 7 — he insists he can.

“People are going to say what they like,” Federer said Saturday, two days before his first-round match at the U.S. Open. “Important is that I concentrate on my game and that the passion is there, that I work the right way, that I’m prepared, and that I feel like I can win a tournament.”… Click here to read on

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win — and with more love and passion that the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

~ Billie Jean King

When I’m out [on the court], I forget my arm isn’t there and just play ball. Passion and love for the sport helps me overcome all obstacles. To this day. I haven’t come across anything I can’t do.

~ Zach Hodskins

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

~ Bill Bradley