Kieran Read

games on yeah and i can you know it's like a switch going and i don't think it's superstitious i think it's routines that help you perform um and yes it's all the same stuff you know you always put your same sock on before the other one and left before right and and everything and say exact same routine so that last hour of a

before a test match or a game, you know what you're doing every minute.

And it's just priming your whole body, psychology of your mind to go, okay, as soon as you go out there and kick off,

you're ready to go yeah like there's no excuses for you yeah so yeah I think that's important play around with it things won't always go your way so you have to be able to adapt obviously yeah it's never perfect but the more you can kind of keep it the same it's going to give you the best position

Yeah, yeah, I had a few.

It comes down to your mindset.

You've got to obviously listen to the experts and

They'll put you in the best shape, but okay, what are you looking at this injury as?

Is it a chance for you to get better at this thing or get better at this thing, you know?

And there's always something within a rehab program where I could come out of it and be better than I was before in a certain aspect.

And, you know, whether it was a thumb or something where I couldn't physically do stuff, I could bike, I could run, do things like that.

Or my back was a bit of an interesting one because that was kind of like a nerve issue, which meant that you couldn't really physically do too much.

Like you couldn't actually physically do it.

So it all became a mental game of how you can prepare yourself.

Yeah.

And so I think it's just, yeah, looking for the thing that's going to make you be a better player.

Come out of it better.

And honestly, like that's going to help you because, yeah, we're never going to be perfect, but we always strive to kind of keep pushing ourselves.

Ah, man, the key was being myself, honestly.

Like, I look back, like, and I was lucky in some respects.