Quotes About Mindset

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.

I grew up playing bigger guys all my life, so it's nothing different.

I'm a person, and everybody wants to be an all-star. Nobody wants to just be a role-player. I've thought about it. But the number one goal is to keep winning, so I'm more focused on that than being an all-star, honestly.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

If I put anything negative in me then it seems to amplify the situation. I have to think positive.

I have an analytical mind.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I played on anger for the first 15 years of my career.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I like to think I am a happy angry person, if that makes sense.

The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

Nothing is 'another day at the office.'

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

The night before a match is always a weird night. I want to get a good night's sleep, but I'm also anxious.

If I'm on my game it doesn't really matter about anybody else.

We don't think about what anybody else with the media or other teams think about us.

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.

I have grown to realize that anything is possible if you are fit - from wearing clothes of your choice to thinking positive.

The way I look at it, if you're the best in the world, you fight the best in the world anywhere, anytime.