Quotes About Mindset

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The focus must be on the walk that is life with its string of present moments.

Seeing it as tragedy can be easier than seeing it as opportunity.

That's when it struck me: people who choose being special over happy are addicts.

To be a happy warrior you must work to be a genuinely happy person.

social comparison lowers our happiness.

Prospect theory explains why you feel terrible if you lose your watch, even if you have four other watches. You are mistaking it in your mind for your caveman's stash of buffalo jerky.

And this leads me to underscore once again the truth that nature is not destiny and, sometimes, we must fight our natural instincts if we want to be happy.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I like to figure out the fight like a puzzle when I'm in the fight.

Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learned that way, but it did leave a lasting impression.

My mindset is I'm a quarterback. But I love being on the field.

If you're the quarterback and want to be the best on the field, you've got to act like it.

I'm playing quarterback, I'm playing football, and I don't try to make it more than that.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

There's a lot of different ways of playing quarterback, and there's a lot of different situations. So that's why, for me, if I can keep my mindset the same, if I can stay consistent in how I prepare, then I'm good.

When people talk about me, they talk about just the arm and that I have a big arm. I want to be able to change that mindset to, 'He's a great quarterback who just happens to have a great arm.'

At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.

Always having that chip on your shoulder is an important thing for a quarterback.