Quotes About Mindset

If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is playing well and he's doing the right things to make you play in a bad way.

I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that's all I'm thinking about. Everything else is in the past. Tottenham is what it is for me now.

As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

It is alright when things are going well, but everyone always says it is how you deal with things when they are going badly.

If I play well I'm not very, very happy and if I play badly I'm not very, very sad. I just try to keep my balance.

You can't think you're God when you score an important goal or the worst player around when its going badly.

If you play badly and lose, you're left with nothing. If you lose but play well, you still have something. You have something to build on.

When you win and you shoot badly, it doesn't really matter. Stats and all the other stuff doesn't matter.

I don't wake up in the morning thinking that I have to bag roles in all good films that are being made.

I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary.

If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

The last 12 balls you don't have to think too much, just see the ball and hit the ball.

Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.

Gay, straight, whatever - none of that actually matters when you're fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that's the message the UFC has been trying to push.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.