Quotes About Mindset

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I suppose that's the way I have always thought about it. Just try to hit the ball. That's what the game's about.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

When you fight the best and then you have to face someone who is supposedly easy to beat, that's when you take your eye off the ball and the defeats begin.

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.

I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to do something, even if people are saying I can't do it, I will achieve it.

Money was a big differentiator when I was growing up, but I made sure it doesn't stay that way.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

If I lose a match, I don't get sad or feel down. But if I lose a close match, I surely have sleepless nights.

I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.

I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something that they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not anymore. They're topped by too many smart minds.

what matters isn't whether or not you're frightened, but how you behave.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

Albert Einstein once stated: "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." It is not until we understand our limited thinking that we can choose to alter it and ourselves.