Athlete Quote by Brett Jones

When I started focusing on my breathing, I became a stronger athlete and was better able to control my levels of effort and pain.

— Laird Hamilton

Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“It requires something extraordinary for any of us to really get to a true and connected relatedness to our breath, and the impact of…

— Baron Baptiste

“By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

— Tanc Sade

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

— Joseph Pilates

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary…

— Lord Chesterfield

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the…

— Anonymous

“To accomplish this, we will go through the entire body again. This time, we will use the breath consciously while focusing on each part…

— Julie T. Lusk

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

— Paula Radcliffe

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point,…

— Satnam Singh Bhamara