Quotes About Mindset

There are no disappointments, just challenges.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

I have always said, '40 is the new 20,' and I truly believe that, but it for sure takes a lot of hard work, education, and discipline to keep it all together as we make our way to 50 and beyond.

Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.

I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

Everyone is going through this ageing process. Whether in their minds or they are discussing it with their friends, they all want to look good and they don't know what to do.

My advice to people with any disease is to live above it.

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

No disrespect to Whittaker, I know I can beat him.

Not any disrespect to Kovalev or anything but I'm not focussed on Kovalev, I'm not a fan of his.

The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.

When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.

Sometimes you can block out a lot of things because you're thinking about so much and you can distract yourself, but sometimes that distraction of being ADD can really set you back.

I feel attention sometimes in games, from fans and other players. But I just try to play the way I always have, remain focused, and don't let distractions get in my way.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.

I don't want to be a diva champion.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.