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Train your lungs the same way you train your muscles. Take a deep breath and hold it. Stretch your lungs to their limit. Lungs may lose flexibility similiar to an unstretched muscle. To relax, nose breathe deeply to fill your five lobes. If you get rattled, concentrate on your inhalation-exhalation cycle. Take deep breaths from your diaphragm to eliminate other stimuli. Without regular deep breaths from your diaphragm, your ribs will feel as if they are squeezing an overfilled balloon. Focused breathing builds lung capacity, eases stress, energizes, and prepares your body/mind for competition.
Learn to breathe from your diaphragm instead of your chest. To accomplish this, lie on your back. Place your left hand on your chest and your right hand on your stomach. Inhale from your nose deeply and slowly for five seconds, focusing on lowering your diaphragm. Let the air fill your lower, central, and upper chest in that order. Then take about seven seconds to exhale slowly through your mouth by raising your diaphragm. Only your right hand should move as you breathe deeply from your abdomen. Diaphragmatic breathing allows you to get more oxygen to your working muscles. Notice how muscles in your body spontaneously relax. Use focused breathing to increase your energy. Exhale each time you throw or hit a ball. Exhaling forcefully increases your power.

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You could try this.

Or this.

My personal thoughts ran along the lines of swimming. That's what I used to do. Lots of things underwater that involved not breathing. So, when I went searching, I was happy to find this.

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