"I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Chris Hoy

#Running Quotes #Team Quotes #Cycling Quotes

“Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.”
“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]”
“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor
“When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.”
“The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.”
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
“To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.”
“People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.”

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