Quotes About Mindset

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.

Control what I can control. Study the pitchers, work hard, put the work in. That's all I can control.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

My dad was probably the first to tell me - I remember pitching when I was 7 or 8, and he told me he didn't want the other team to know whether I was having a great game or a bad game. And that's something that always stuck with me.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.