Quotes About Mindset

I've got to warm up to warm up and then play. I understand that now.

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don't like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I'll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.

One part of my job I'll never learn to love is the pre-match warm-up. I hate it with every fibre of my being. It actually disgusts me.

When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

It's the warm-up in the changing room when I switch on. I don't even think about the fight until then. Some fighters are bouncing about the walls, but I switch off. Then it's like someone flicks a switch in me.

Maybe 5 or 10 minutes before going on the court, I'll do some fast feet movements or sprint, but the only problem with that is sometimes after you finish warming up, you wait to get on the court, and you end up cooling down a little. It's not always ideal, but that's why I wait until the very last moment to do all of this.

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

If Warren Buffett could change his mind about investing in airlines, Mohnish Pabrai could change his mind about investing in autos. Pabrai, who has modeled his investment career and fee structure after Buffett's original partnership, counts General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Ferrari in his highly concentrated portfolio.

Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.

You need the other team to be feeling the heat when they walk on to face you and that only comes from their being wary straight off of your dominance on the field of play.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.

If you can't turn cold into hot, you're fucked. Go ahead and apply that to all areas of life.

There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

You're mental. I always knew you were.

But do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it's painted.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.