Quotes About Mindset

What we can control is our readiness.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

I don't need preseason to get ready.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

My wife deals with real problems. My problems aren't problems - they're inconveniences.

I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off... it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.

I realise things aren't going to go my way every week. Of course they're not. But the main thing is to give your all and enjoy.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

There is enough work for everyone. So there is no fear when I look at other people doing well. But it makes you realise that its important to ensure that you keep your quality up.

Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's just a game.

I have realised that at the end of the day, I have to detach from my films, just do my job, and move on.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.