Quotes About Mindset

My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.

I just play, man. Try to play good every week, but if it doesn't happen, I just move on. But if I do play good, I do the same thing.

I think it's not very enjoyable for me to move on grass and play because I'm thinking too much!

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

Tennis is a great game, a great sport because you're out there by yourself, so you have to move on to the next point, next game, next set, whatever. It's the same thing in basketball. If you miss a shot, you move onto the next one. If you turn it over, you move onto the next play. That certainly helped me.

When I am out there I pay no attention to the crowd and just move on with playing the game.

With your bad plays, you turn around and you forget them, you move on from them.

When you get moved around, it can be jarring, but it helps to fine-tune your focus in the middle of the season, when other guys are getting a little lackadaisical.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Sometimes checking that ball down is the simple decision. It's about moving the chains. It's about a completion here and a completion there. And that's how you know the game really slows down is when you're able to do that, when it's just second nature.

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.

You need to have a short-term memory. That's a big thing that I learned a lot. Moving on from games, even good games that I have. Move on from them and be prepared for the next night.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

Playing for Iceland, you always find the stats are against you, so I never pay too much attention to them.

I have always said that I do not pay much attention to what is said. Not to the positive and not to the negative.

I think it's real big to be honest just because of how the media say I'm a bust and all of that stuff. I really don't pay too much attention to it but I know one thing about it is when I'm focused, I'm focused.

If I beat Hughes they'll say he was done before our fight. There's always going to be those guys that play up the negative part of it, I don't pay too much attention to that.

I tend not to pay too much attention to the person marking me.

What we tend to forget in a skill-based game, is that if you start paying too much attention to mind games, you'll get into all kinds of avoidable issues. It's not easy to ignore them, but you have to try.