Quotes About Mindset

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.

To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't.

My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.

Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.