Quotes About Mindset

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have so many different combinations to try to get him to swing and miss.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.

Your longest drives will come when you feel you're swinging at 75 percent.

When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.

I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

Some people say it is relaxing to fish. But not with me. I simply cannot switch off my competitive instincts.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.

I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.