I play my best football when I’m calm mentally.

You have to be mentally strong to succeed in cricket, especially at the international level.

Power and speed aren’t enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you’ll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun

I’m making music that I want to hear. I’m my own biggest fan.

I come from nothing, so when I make something out of myself, it’s like I’m making history.

You can’t stop my voice cause you don’t own my life but do what you want with my body.

To play at Real Madrid, it is not enough to just have football quality. You must be mentally strong.