Quotes About Mindset

In every aspect of Italian life, one of the key characteristics to get to grips with is that this is a nation at ease with the distance between ideal and real. They are beyond what we call hypocrisy. Quite simply they do not register the contradiction between rhetoric and behavior. It's an enviable mind-set.

Fuck "try." Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, "If I fail, it's not my fault, I tried.

The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.

I don't care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are—you can improve, and you will. Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, "Done," your instincts say, "Next.

there's no off-season when you're serious about being a winner.

He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.

From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you're not going down to theirs. You're not competing with anyone else, ever again. They're going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.

And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don't talk about it. You don't think about it. You just use it.

Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable

If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you.

Success isn't the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn't work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. It's not. If you want to be truly successful, you can't be content with "pretty good." You need to find an extra gear.

We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.

Everything you do in the gym becomes easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

He never sees problems, only situations to resolve, and when he finds the solution, he doesn't waste time explaining it. He just says, "I got this.

Cooler, Closer, Cleaner . . . good, great, unstoppable. You can be whichever you want. If you want to be unstoppable, you've got to make the commitment.

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." You embrace it. You trust yourself to handle whatever you're dealing with, and don't allow your fear to escalate into uncontrollable doubt. If you ever see me at a game, you'll see no emotion from me.

The fact is, you can't train your body—or excel at anything—before you train your mind. You can't commit to excellence until your mind is ready to take you there.

He never sees problems, only situations to resolve, and when he finds the solution, he doesn't waste time explaining it.

The fastest way to tumble out of the Zone is to allow emotions to drive your actions.

So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven't happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.

Remember, you don't compete with anyone, you make them compete with you.

Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited. Fear heightens your awareness; it makes you alert. Doubt is the opposite; it slows you down and paralyzes your thinking.