Quotes About Mindset

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

I don't suffer of anything that I lost.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

And when you visualize something very clearly, you believe that you 100 percent can get there.

After that, I never went to a competition to compete. I went to win. Even though I didn't win every time, that was my mind-set. I became a total animal. If you tuned into my thoughts before a competition, you would hear something like: "I deserve that pedestal, I own it, and the sea ought to part for me. Just get out of the fucking way, I'm on a mission. So just step aside and gimme the trophy.

Though you may not realize it now, you'll eventually recognize it when you take the same disciplined approach in tackling a particular challenge.

No matter what you do in life, you have to have a business mind and educate yourself about money.

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Choosing happiness, in large part, means consciously refusing to choose unhappiness.

An attitude that avoids enjoyment today only means an evasion of happiness forever. Happiness becomes something for tomorrow and therefore ever elusive.

I don't believe we are put through hard times in order to learn a lesson that we couldn't learn some other way. But if we never get off the "why" question, if we never get unstuck from the idea that life is unfair to us, then we will never have a healthy response to living. We'll buy into all the reactions that take away our inner peace and eat away at us.

People think that an expensive car--a stimulus--will lead to a response of happiness. If they have a great paying job--the proper stimulus, they believe--then their response will be happiness. But what if the opposite is true? What if happiness is the stimulus and the response is whatever life brings from that happiness?

What I did was focus on what I had and no on what I didn't have. Through that focus, I was able to make more changes.

The best things happen to people who make the best of things that happen to them.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you're behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.