Quotes About Mindset

The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

No matter what's going on, on the leaderboard, you have to know that par is a very, very good score and just keep playing.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn't matter what holes they are.

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

Our approach to practice, I think, is paramount!

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

When I started my career, we were running around water parks and ridiculous things like that. You used to drive in dreading pre-season back then, but now you know it's going to be pretty tough, but it's going to be probably what you need. It's going to be good for you instead of just slogging away.

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

I don't want to be in this sport just to participate. I want to be in this to win, and that's what motivates me every day to break down barriers and to get better every time and to exceed my limits and to win fights.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

Partying? I don't really think about that.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.