Quotes About Mindset

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

I just want to do well in every game that I'm picked to play.

I never picked an opponent.

I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.

I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill.

If you make every pillow like it's your only pillow, and every customer like it's your only customer, I mean, that's an amazing concept.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.

I'll have a few pints the night before a match.

I'm not saying having one pint will stop you from winning but you don't want to finish a race disappointed with your performance and then remember that beer you had one day.

Pressure busts pipes, and pressure can get to some people, and I don't let it get to me. And that's how I don't let it get to me is because, honestly, I just don't believe in it.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

If I am on the pitch I'm very calm because I know I've done everything to be there. That's the way to be and the way I'll feel until the last day of my career.

My mindset's just focused on looking forward, bettering myself, getting on the pitch, on the training pitch, doing what I can do to improve myself.

I never enter in the pitch under pressure to score goals, but I know my position requires me to score goals.

The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.