Quotes About Mindset

Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that's it.

I think every player thinks in a different way.

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

Just because you love to cook and you are good at in your home environment doesn't necessarily mean that you are cut out for competition. It is a different animal and requires you to approach cooking in a very different way.

Everyone deals with pressure in different ways.

Even small challenges are big challenges for me. I take all challenges seriously. I do not differentiate between big and small challenges.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

I always think about the difficulties I had to make sure I don't get too comfortable.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

If I can keep it light in between scenes, then that helps me dig down further than if I try and stay at that constant place all day. That's just me. Every actor's got their thing. But that's what I do.

I think when it's a high-stress situation, my tennis definitely takes a big dip.

I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

If I'm in a good headspace, then it doesn't matter which direction things go.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

I don't see myself at a physical disadvantage.

Obviously when you do start with a two-shot lead you feel like you should win, but a two-shot lead is nothing really. It can disappear really fast.

I don't get easily disappointed.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.

After a disappointing game, we don't want to look back.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.