Quotes About Mindset

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.

We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.

Let's not be miserable when we win. There's definitely people in places that, even when they win, they're not happy. That's sad.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

Right before a match, I and many other players, tend to be very clean. Just plain rice or pasta with some chicken maybe, but not too much sauce, to just get some carbohydrates and energy.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

I don't know where that thought came from and I don't know why I had that thought, but I thought I was the best fighter on the whole planet.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.

I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

I am not bothered about my career graph, as I am someone who doesn't believe in planning things.

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.