Quotes About Mindset

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.

The one thing Nikki and I always live by is 'No regrets.'

The one thing you don't want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.

I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that's the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.

The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.

The problem with most people who play the market is that they are not flexible.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

For a long time, I've been an overthinker. The problem with that is when you're in perfect shape for a fight and you've got everything worked out and you've got all the moves you think you're going to need and everything's fine but in your own mind you're going to make up things and you just add pressure.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

In the real world, there's a lot of things that we can't control, but when I step through those ropes I get to control everything.

That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do the right thing each week, and the ranking will look after itself.