Quotes About Mindset

From my first fight, I loved being in the ring. I tune everything out - the lights, the smells, the noise - so I'm in this zone where I'm performing only for myself.

Yeah, if I see a ball in the zone then I'll try to put a good swing on it.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.

I'd be lying if I said certain comments don't affect you. We're human beings. I had to zone out of it and had to take myself off social media as a player because I didn't want to see it.

For me, that's the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw you pitches, you'll be able to drive the ball a little bit better.

I'd like to continue to reduce the amount of balls I swing at outside the strike zone. I've been told I have a really low number, one of the lowest percentages in the game, but there's no reason it shouldn't be the lowest.

But every time the crowd boo me I try to turn that negative into a positive and seem to have done that better. Sometimes it drives me to play better and concentrate more when theyre booing. Sometimes when theyre not on my back, I cant get in the zone.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

"Okay, I have arthritis, and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life.

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.