Quotes About Mindset

I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.

I look to constantly be a better version of myself every time I step out on court. That has come out with some good wins and good things on paper, but if my ranking were to drop or to rise, it wouldn't affect my goals or how I want to keep improving.

You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you're not going to miss.

Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

I could probably go through our losses in a lot more detail than our wins, all through my career. But you have to be able to move on to what's next, and I'm very process-oriented and next-day oriented.

I consider 100 wins to be better than 100 defeats.

No matter the wins and losses, you can control your attitude. You can control you coming into work each and every day with the right attitude and wanting to get better and trying to get better.

I think I try to separate every single play, because like I said, if you're 0 for 3 with three Ks, the fourth at-bat could be the deciding factor whether your team wins or not. You've got to forget that you've got the 3 Ks.

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

Don't get me wrong, I always wanted to win, but, after we'd won and won and won, it became more about not wanting to lose than enjoying wins.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Something that helps me build more optimism in the dead of winter is not staying up too late and waking up early.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

I can't go on the court crying because then it's a big advantage for my opponent, so I have to wipe my tears, have a good warm-up, feel the ball and then start grooving in the game.

If you operate in fear, it can just wipe you out.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like us are wired slightly different.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.

Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.