Quotes About Mindset

I'm not a guy who always complains or talks about getting carries.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.

Everybody talks about talent. But talent is not only athleticism. It's not only tennis shots. It's everything. It's the attitude you have about life.

Everybody talks about, 'This guy is talented; that guy is talented.' The talent on the team and a lot of things in this game come down to focus, execution, not making a bad penalty. Really, that's not a talent issue. It's a focus issue; it's a mindset issue.

I'm a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn't matter. Basketball is basketball. It's the way you approach it.

It's not everything to be tall.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

I'm a prime example that you don't have to be the greatest, the most athletic or the tallest.

I expect a lot from myself but, over time, I've learned to tame that.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

Sometimes, you go down to Florida and Tampa and you get a couple days off, you can get complacent.

Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6

It is one thing to act like a servant; it is quite another to be a servant.

Thomas à Kempis, "To have no opinion of ourselves, and to think always well and highly of others, is great wisdom and perfection.

Things are bad enough without getting cancer too," he says. "It's never too late to develop bad habits.

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

The only thing we can control is our response.

Entitlement is a contagious, insidious state of mind that has infected a whole generation of young people who feel they deserve things based on who they think they are or who their parents are. Or who they've been told they are. Entitlement also afflicts adults, who feel they should have or get things based on their friends having them or just feeling worthy. It's hard to pinpoint the derivation of where and when the disease started, but it's an epidemic.

The value of time, and how we experience it, depends on on how we use it: how we feel about our lives — at the time.

There are people who want to achieve--and then there are sane people.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

We can change the way that we think about external events, even where we cannot change them. And we can do something more. We can intelligently change our exposure to events that make us either happy or unhappy.