Quotes About Mindset

You are what you decide you want to be. You can be some horrible, bitter person who's not a pleasure to be with. That's your choice.

A lot of times, people take other people's confidence for cockiness, airheadedness, rashness or brashness, and that's the light in which they see you when you say you always knew you'd be a champion, blah blah blah. Well, you have to be confident in the sport we do. As an athlete, in general, you have to be confident.

It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

If I can be smart off the court, then I have to believe that will bleed onto the court.

What I've learned is that you forget that it's not only a blessing to play this game, but it's an opportunity.

It's actually a blessing to be able to walk off that field win, lose or draw. If you walk off that field healthy, that's the important thing.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

I try not to hear anything negative about me, and if I do hear it, I try to block it out.

My main focus, my pride is right there on the block. That's where I've always played and my focus has always been.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

Sometimes, I see the guys driving and they don't even look at the rim, they just dribble out so it's as good as a block or even better because I'm kind of laughing when I see that. That's what it's about.

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

I'm not going to make every shot. I'm not going to get every block. I can't let one play affect me the next two or three times down the court.

You've gotta play a head game; especially blocking shots, you've gotta make it hard. You're playing against the best of the best: they're not gonna go straight to the basket, do a layup. You've gotta lure them into some shots.

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

I did not have to think much doing Bob Biswas in 'Kahaani.'