Quotes About Mindset

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Sometimes I just put some first serve in, which, on break points, it's pretty important.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

It was many years until I started meeting other people who were like me: very progressive-minded politically but also very conservative theologically.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.