Quotes About Attitude

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." The first First Lady's philosophy

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.

I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

As a man thinketh, so is he

it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.

They had not fully outgrown the idea that it was hardly the proper thing for them to use their hands, since they had come there, as one of them expressed it, "to be educated, and not to work." Gradually, though, I noted with satisfaction that a sentiment in favour of work was gaining ground.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Both middle-aged people and young people enjoy a play about young lovers; but only middle-aged people will tolerate a play about middle-aged lovers; young people will not come to see such a play, because, for them, middle-aged lovers are a joke—not a very funny one.

The hardest thing in tennis is to forget the double fault or the missed chances, and most players can't. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look forward to the next chance.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

C'est drôle comme les gens qui se croient instruits éprouvent le besoin de faire chier le monde.

Il était presque toujours de bonne humeur, le reste du temps il dormait.

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

The gayest young men make the gravest old men.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.