Aidan Walsh

But one of the biggest things that I've seen, like self-talk, I know it sounds so cliche and so simple, but self-talk is a massive thing, particularly when you're going into a fight in a high-pressure environment.

Like if you look at your self-talk, if it's negative and it's down, it's hard to get the best performance out of yourself.

where like if you have good body language and good self-talk and I say this openly it's no secret like in any sport in sports psychology it's massive but if you have good self-talk and good body language you can do amazing things you know yourself when you wake up in the morning you put your shoulders back you look ahead you feel ready but if you turn your shoulders and you're looking down you know and you're crunched over

There's a very, very big difference in how you're going to perform.

So I definitely agree.

I think mindset's massive.

But I think the mistake that a lot of people make is they get two or three days before a competition and open up a sports psychology book or a mindset book and go, oh, I'm going to do this.

When the best athletes in the world have been doing it five, six, seven months, a year, two years before.

And I think that's the difference.

I really think that's the difference.

So I do an exercise that it's basically three words.

So I use this all the time through my whole career.

And it was two words in an image, but three words.

And mine was cocky, confident, Ronaldo.

And I was never cocky.

I was never confident.

And I was nowhere near Ronaldo.

So I wish it was.

But for me, that got me in the best mindset to perform.

And no matter what, see, when I was going to perform, it was like cocky, confident, Ronaldo, cocky, confident, Ronaldo.