Quotes About Mindset

I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.

Being bitter about the success or draft status of someone else is like swallowing Drano and hoping the other guy gets sick. You don't have time to fret and worry about the other guys vying for what you want.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

One thing in this game is you've gotta stay positive.

I try to stay away from all negativity.

If I stay negative in negative energy, that's what's gonna come back.

When you're down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, 'Stay calm and carry on.'

Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.

Sometimes things might not go as you want them to, but you have to stay focused and fully concentrated.

Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.

It's always fun to go home and play, but you gotta stay focused on the game.

We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.

I think you have to always stay focused and positive. If your positive energy dies out, like it happened to me for some time, then you can't do anything.

I just have to stay focused and play football with a smile on my face.

I've just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.

You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.