Quotes About Mindset

I don't want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

I always find a reason to be happy before I sleep. For me, happiness is a choice that is in your hands.

I'm not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.

Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

I've always been a very good sleeper. I can sleep any time, anywhere and never lost sleep before a big match.

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

I've got respect for everybody I play but I don't fear anybody. Nobody causes me sleepless nights.

Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn't about slick moves or great skills. It's about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.

Say I was playing like a big receiver at whatever school, I would look up his Instagram and see his girlfriend and I'd probably go slide in her DMs. Before the game. You know we get to the game, he probably know about it, maybe he don't. But either he know about it or he don't, but either way I'm bringing it up in the game.

I used to say to my opponents: 'If you let me beat you, I'm going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.' When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring problem or that I was only feeling 80 per cent fit.

As a fighter, that's not something that ever factors in, whether you go first or last or you walk out first or you walk out second. It's not something that ever factors in or you feel slighted about. I don't think that anybody would care. The job is the same.

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

As a batter you are generally playing a mental game most of the time and having too long to prepare can work against you - you can almost fry yourself out before a Test match or feel slightly fatigued two games in because you have spent too long preparing.

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Bad habits are easy to slip into and good habits are very easy to build. Don't allow yourself to do something that can destroy you.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

The frustrating part is knowing that you've done it before, knowing that you can play, but then your game starts going down the wrong path and you lose confidence. It's so easy to just start slipping away.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs.