Quotes About Mindset

This is something you have to accept in football. Someone will say you are overpriced, but I did not think about it. Maybe I was overpriced, but I believe in my quality and want to get better. If you know what you can do for your team, it becomes no problem, and you don't even think about it.

First, confidence in your talent and then confidence that the team is going to look for you, because they need you. And when you reach that point, it changes a lot, because your mindset is completely different.

When I'm on the pitch, I only think about helping the team and doing well.

There's a big A my team likes to talk about, which is Accepts. If you can't 'accept,' then you're never going to play well in the U.S. Open.

I think the mindset is supposed to be not who will play on the court, but can you be prepared yourself, and set your mind that you will be working all the time? You know when you come into a game, you want to help a team and do your thing.

With all due respect, but Juventus are not Real Madrid or the AC Milan of Ronaldinho's days. They can win games 6-2 or 5-2. Juventus are not like that. We have to win 1-0 or 2-0. It's in the club's DNA. That does not mean we will not try to win 3-0, but we are a team that cannot concede a goal when we are ahead.

It's not like I go out on the field thinking that I'm 5-6 and I'm the smallest guy out there. I'm just trying to help my team win games.

I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.

I think every time I step on the court, I'm just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.

I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.

My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

I had a teammate whose motto was, 'If I make a million dollars, I must spend a million dollars.' I was like, 'If I make a million dollars, I'm hoping I can keep a million dollars.'

I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

I used to be so focused on winning, I had a really hard time enjoying soccer. If I missed a shot, I would spend a lot of time thinking about how I'd disappointed my teammates. Then I learned how moments of struggle make you stronger.

I think I'm teaching my teammates that they can still be successful while having fun and enjoying the moment rather than being a stone cold brick.

I was a great teammate and I love all my teammates, and then No. 2 is I'm a champion. So I don't care if anyone says I suck, because I don't.

Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

I just want to do my job and have fun and enjoy my teammates, and I don't need to tell everybody that, oh, this is what I'm doing or this is how good I am.

I wake up every day like, 'How can I get better, how can I help my teammates be successful? I try to control what I can control and worry about us, nothing else.

I'm just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that's all I can really focus on.

In my mind, every time I touch the ball, I believe I have the ability to score with the help of my teammates.

I don't pay attention to what people think. I don't really care what people think. All that matters is my teammates and my coaches.

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.