Quotes About Mindset

In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

Try to walk into the gym with the mindset that you're going to do a different thing every day. Whether that means a new exercise, a new order for your routine, a new pace, or more resistance, your body will help you get out of that rut.

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.

I only have a family pack; never really felt the need for abs or something like that because, to my mind, being fit in terms of cricket is far more important than anything.

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

In running, the only equipment that really matters - at least the mentality was in those days - were the pair of shoes that you wore.

If you stay in your pajamas the whole day, you tend to get lazy and boring.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.

Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.

For me, I try not to think about it too much, because you find that if you think about it too much, then you start to panic at every little thing that goes on in training.

I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just accepting it... So that's been the biggest thing. Not fighting it and trying to think I'm going to have the perfect mentality the entire time. That's not going to happen.

I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.