Quotes About Mindset

I'm constantly trying to be strong, to be calm when things get tough. The biggest part of that is keeping things in perspective, not being afraid of playing long matches, not putting too much pressure on yourself. It can't be all or nothing, right here, right now.

I stay really calm and just try to do my best all the time.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I always eat the same thing on game day, or I read a book to calm myself.

The more reps you get, the more you calm down and the less thinking you're doing. Then you just go out and play.

Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.

Every cap is my first, and every one is my last... that's the way I look at it.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.

I enjoy life. That doesn't mean I don't care.

I don't care about revenues.

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

All the little things you nitpick in your head, nobody really cares that much outside your head.

I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.

There are times where maybe I don't have as many carries, and we still win the game, I'm going to be fine. I'm not really trippin' about the stats if we're winning the game.

Being in my rhythm, I can never tell whether I got 15 carries or 25 carries. It's never really a difference to me. I just go out and play.

If it's five carries, if it's 10 carries, whatever it is, I'm willing to give it my best effort - 100 percent.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.