A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.
When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.