Quotes About Mindset

I work out first thing as mentally it makes me feel great and I like to start the day with it.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

I was never really healthy mentally.

I think one of the hardest things to do in the league is not having a great year, but it's having a better year when you had a great year. All the attention is going to be on you, all the pressure is going to be on you. The challenge you're going to have is more mentally than anything else.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.

If you mess around, and you don't take every game as seriously as possible, there's going to be a time you get to the Finals and say look, 'We're not sharp right now.' At that point, there's nothing you can do.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.

I can play against a player like Messi; I don't fear anybody. I just play my game.

I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head's on the game.

I think some people get just locked into 'this is the way it has to be,' and they're afraid of messing something up. I don't ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really - not just shooting.

That's when you start messing up, when you put too much pressure on yourself. Just come into the game clear and just try to play hard.

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

I don't like all these flashy cities like L.A. or Miami. I don't know if I could be the same player if I played in those cities.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.