“It’s not about reducing pressure it’s about building the capacity to embrace more.”
"Our brain craves reducing uncertainty. Uncertainty is the hardest human emotion."
- Jonah Oliver
Awareness
"It’s not about positive thinking it’s about taking positive action, no matter what you feel. There are no gold medals for the best positive self talk at the Olympics. Sport is a behaviour."
- Jonah Oliver
Motivation
"It’s not about motivation, it’s about connecting to what matters."
- Jonah Oliver
Motivation
"One of the biggest errors we have made in elite sport is we use the word confident when we actually mean competent. I can’t sing. I am not competent at singing. Put six beers in me in a karaoke bar and now I’m confident … but I am still terrible at singing."
- Jonah Oliver
Self-confidence
"Competition is an ordinary performance on a special day."
- Jonah Oliver
Focus
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience