Quotes About Mindset

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

It's important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they tend to think about themselves.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.

If you have been brought up with attacking and trying to get to number two, number three, number four goal, not getting one goal and defend, if that's sort of the mentality that's engraved in you, it's really difficult to do the other thing.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

I never played for numbers.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.

Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal. You'll go down, don't worry about that.

Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.