“I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.” IfsThinkingFeelsSometimesHappensGamesSportsKnowingWindOne DayThrowingAnything Can Happen Author:Barry Zito
“In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.” WayMeanHelpingUseHappensUsedSportsProgressTrainingPerformancesCompetitionAthleteDevelopingMotivational SportsImageryMental Imagery Author:Terry Orlick
“I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingLooksKindHappensWinningSportsKnow HowCrazyDependsLosingCaughtCaught UpWin Or Lose Author:Mike Ditka
“I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.” WorldYearsMindI CanRealHappensAbleMovingSportsDealsCarBlameUpsetOwnersDriversWhere You AreReal WorldRacingWhere You Are GoingCar RacingStock Car Racing Author:Ken Schrader
“My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.” FactsHappensWinningSportsGoalTeamNew YorkFameGiantsHallsChampionshipRetiredJerseyLifelongHall Of FameResigned Author:Michael Strahan
“We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.” BelieveHappensSuccessOrderSportsPrideThings HappenWinnerBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouMake Things HappenPersonal Pride Author:Alan Cohen
“Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.” IfsWantHardHappensLawSportsCarFrontsDegreesAverageTrackVariousRacingRunnersCollisionCompetitivenessSports CarsLaw Of Averages Author:Allan McNish
“It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.” HappensSportsRealisingJuniors Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.” YearsHappensWould BeAbleThreeWinningFeltSportsHalfCasesHigherFinalsFinishedReachingRealisingThree YearsJuniorsAustralian Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.” WorldHappensOpportunitySportsSeriesBaltimoreWorld Series Author:Bobby Bonilla
“This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.” IfsKnowsHappensSportsHappeningsBaseballGreat Things Author:Mark McGwire
“It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.” PeopleDifferentPhilosophyHappensSportsPresidentDifferencesBobCeo Author:Rick Pitino
“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.” MenFirstsBigsHappensRunningAbleEarthTurnsGrowsSportsBreakBabyLegsLimitationFlatsSailingBreaking DownMarathonMustacheRunning Marathon Author:Kathrine Switzer
“There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.” PeopleFirstsHappensAgeSportsEnvironmentChaoticAthletics Author:Chris Kluwe