Quotes About Mindset

I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

I always say you can only change things from within. It's all about energy. If it's positive, then - even, like, somebody you don't like, saying hello to them one day just switches the conversation, and instead of being angry, I think it's good.

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have to learn to deal with that too.

It's not easy for a player who considers him or herself to be a proper batter to then adjust down the order. Put anyone there and the scores won't necessarily come. You can lose a bit of love for it, too.

I used to say, 'Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?' to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right after a race when I'm still in an emotional state. Now I at least try to answer.

It's about enjoying what you do, and that's what I try to tell everybody, 'Hey. When we wake up tomorrow, let's go hard again and let's try to do better.' That's all we can do, and that has been me all these years. I'll keep doing that until I retire.

There is a high cost for low living.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

I'm always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.

I'm trying to do my job at a high level and that's it. Everything else can take care of itself.

I think I play better when people say keep showing us what you've got, keep showing us. And whatever's going to get me to play at a high level is what I want to do.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

It's just important that you plan your week with food and everything to try and be on your highest level on a matchday.

I just work and continue to do whatever I can do to get to the highest level I can get. If that's an All-Star? Sure, I'll take it. But I don't have my mind set on that.

If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.