Quotes About Mindset

In boxing, some fighters let the occasion get to them and they let their opponent get to them. With me, it's just another day at the office.

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.

I am not the kind of person who always hopes for the easiest opponent.

If I can hit a couple shots early, the opponent guards me in a different way.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

As a fighter my goal is not to get hit and frustrate my opponent. Once I get you frustrated then I got you.

I have a healthy respect. The fact that I get ready for each opponent shows my respect.

We try not to worry about our opponent. We try to worry about ourselves.

The only true opponent of PSG is PSG.

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That's the way you have to think. You can't think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I focus on my opponents the same way whether they are a champion or not.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'

Most opponents aren't Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that's when you get taken advantage of.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

I cannot let my opponents get into my head.