Quotes About Mindset

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You're not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there's a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.

When things are tough in training camp; when things are tough in season; when it's good, you don't want guys hitting too high or too low or depressed. It's just draining for everybody.

Everyone always says don't take your defense into hitting and don't take your hitting into defense. If you feel comfortable at one of the other, I think the other is going to feed off the other.

It doesn't matter what you're hitting - if you're not living up to your own expectations, then it's hard to have fun.

When you start hitting some shots, you build some confidence.

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

I've always just tried to stick with what works, and sometimes you go through funks - not only in just hockey but in general.

It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.

My team never let it go up in my head that I am a record holder.

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.

The only person holding you back is you.

Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.

In my career, I was on teams that started 11-0 and 13-0 before losing. I can tell you right now that our streak-breaking losses didn't happen because we weren't the best team on the field. The truth is, we let little things creep in: a holding call here, a false start there.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.