Quotes About Mindset

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

Attitude determines how well you do it.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Channel your energy. Focus.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do