Quotes About Mindset

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.

I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

You don't have to be the biggest, the strongest, or the most talented player to be successful, but you do need to be a step ahead of the competition.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

I was never the most talented player on the field.

Gun skill is never the main reason why someone is talented at a game. It's literally their decision making.

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

I don't talk about the past.

People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.

It's ironic my biggest mental crisis in life came when I actually succeeded. A lot of people talked about dealing with failure, but for me, dealing with success was probably the hardest time in my life.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

Nobody I ever broke bread with - and I see players all the time - talked about using their head running the football. I've seen Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Franco Harris, and we've all been together - we were all together at the Super Bowl - and no one talked about using their head.

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

I always try not to read anything of people talking about me, but of course you can still feel pressure at the stadium, during the games, if you don't play well.

My game is not talking. I just go out there and play. I don't care who's across from me.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

It doesn't matter my size. It's more a mindset. That's what people don't understand. It's the size the media talks about, but they don't know my heart.

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.