Quotes About Mindset

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

I've just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you're an older athlete you can become set in your ways. Each year I try to break a bad habit.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.

We cannot think about playoffs. We just need to play the games.

Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

In my own mind, I don't want to be the weak link of the team.

By folding often, I give other players the false impression that I'm a weak player - a player who can be easily bluffed. Trust me; I'm not a weak player.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Nothing's in my head when I'm out there; I'm just trying to have fun on the football pitch.

Going out on to the pitch and being mentally free is a massive thing.

I never chased around with the opposition or got too well acquainted with them, because when the time in the ballgame came up where I had to pitch inside, I didn't want to hesitate.