Quotes About Mindset

I don't think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

We're not preparing to lose games.

When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.

I am preparing myself as every offseason, getting myself ready to close. Starting hasn't even crossed my mind and I'm not going to do it either.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

Being a presence on the defensive end, I know that's important to me, I have to establish that.

I choose to live in a positive world and a positive presence.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each day.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

If I'm in a good place, then I'm really open-minded to what's being presented, but if I'm in a bad place, I'm much more closed-minded.

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

In my first press conference I said, 'I'm here to win.' If you don't think that way, or any player thinks that way, why are you playing the game?

When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Pressure's what you make of it.