Quotes About Mindset

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

There are a lot of reasons why guys can miss - it isn't always just black and white - but you just have to learn to move on from it. That's just the approach I take. I've missed plenty of kicks before.

I've been given plenty of opportunities and been blessed to have the kind of family that I have to give me the mindset to never stop working.

People ask me why I can still smile on the pitch when we're losing. I tell them that if you lose your smile and stop being happy, you should find yourself a plot in the graveyard.

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

I'm not in the sport to make money, but that's a big plus.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'

When the Lakers sent me down to the D-League, I didn't view it as a demotion. I accepted it as a challenge. Plus, it meant playing more minutes, which meant growth.

My role is to be a defensive player, and that's what I try to do. Whatever offense comes to me is a plus.

I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.