Quotes About Mindset

The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.

In a way, owing a hundred million is easier than a hundred thousand, because you stop imagining that you will ever be able to pay the money back.

You can get eight thousand great, amazing messages, and someone will send you one thing that you're maybe self-conscious about, and that's the only thing in your head for the rest of the day.

I don't like thinking 'Why me, why me, why me?' when I was diagnosed with cancer because that would be hypocritical. I didn't say 'Why me?' when I was one in a thousand who made it as a professional footballer.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you have question the beholder when he or she is delusional.

He fell over frequently, but he never cried, though the ice was hard, the hardest surface his bones had ever met. He taught himself to laugh instead. Laughing was a bit like crying. It was a strange convulsion; it just came from a different bit of your mind. The trick was to move the crying out of that bit and let the laughter in. And so he'd pick himself up and carry on, laughing.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Moving from one environment (such as playing outside) to a completely different environment (such as doing homework inside) requires a shift from one mind-set (When I'm playing outside, it's okay to run around and make noise and socialize) to another (When I'm doing homework, I need to sit at my desk and concentrate on my schoolwork). If a kid has difficulty with this skill, there's a good chance he'll still be thinking and

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death

The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But

Getting your brain wired into little goals and achieving them, that helps you achieve the bigger things you shouldn't be able to do," he said. "It's not just practicing the specific thing. It's always making things more difficult than they should be, and never falling short, so that you have that extra reserve, that tank, so you know you can always go further than your goal. For me that's what discipline is. It's repetition and practice.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

I have learnt that how someone sees you is really none of your business; it's the film they're playing of you, nothing to do with you, so move away from the building.

Critical thinking is one of our highest achievements besides eating with a fork, so when we emotionally can't get what we want, we have to think our way towards the resolution and this is where we crash and burn.

Changing the way you think changes the chemicals in your brain. For

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

Is it easier to be than to do?

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.