Top 435 Mentality Quotes

I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world’s best athletes.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You’re going to put in the time. You’ve got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.

Too many executives I’ve met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they’ve come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

You can’t try to keep someone against their will, or it’s difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

I’m trying to run through you. I’m trying to make you feel everything that I’m bringing. That’s the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I’m trying to do the same.

The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It’s simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

I like the way Michael Crabtree plays the game. He’s strong, he goes up for the ball, he has that mentality to just make plays.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I’m not going to grind back.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people’s ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever – people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality.

I am who I am. Chip on my shoulder? I was just born with the mentality to go win.

When I played for Barcelona, I knew that some home games were going to be easier than some others, as the team had plenty of confidence. That confident mentality helped Barcelona players win games.

There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

Football is my base; that’s where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that’s what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

The mentality side of football is massive.

The great thing about a sitcom is that you’re in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you’re dealing with, and there’s kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you’re going to suck.

My mentality has always been, If I’m not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn’t going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.

My mentality as a competitor will never change.

My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden, even though they’re only, like, 20.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you’re supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.

I try to have fun; I try to inject myself into my work and have a good time along the way and not lose sight of who I am, and who my friends are, and all of these things that treating it like a business might hinder. I try to keep that hobby mentality.

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me – ‘Yo, you’re undersized.’ I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I’m like, ‘I’m not as big as I thought I was.’ So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.

What’s important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys’-club, locker-room mentality out the door.

I want to win every time, this mentality will be with me for the rest of my life.

My inspiration is European fashion. I’m really into Euro fashion, and I also love rock n’ roll. That’s the mentality that I like to have when I’m dealing with fashion.

I understand the mentality of a jock.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that’s got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

If you are at United, you need a manager with a winning mentality. We had that with Ferguson. Mourinho has it. He wants to win every game.

I have this mindset and mentality every time I touch the score, and I really truly believe that. It’s something I try to do a little too much.

When you’re headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It’s a different kind of pressure, because you’ve got to deliver. You’ve got to give these people what they paid for. It’s a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it’s honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

I know Mourinho very well. He has a very strong mentality and is very peculiar man.

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

My dad was raised hard. His own dad’s mentality was, ‘If you’re not dead, you can work. If you’re not dead, you’re all right.’

I think it has to do with the English mentality, we’ve always been wary of people with talent, we prefer people who are seen to work hard.

I didn’t get started until late. I didn’t get started until I was 20. I turned 21 in my first MLS season, in March. It’s always been a race against time, really, for me. It’s kind of my mentality, to make up for lost time.

I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be – or you’d think should be – all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

If you want to be at the top, you need to have the winning mentality and the calmness.

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, ‘Oh, can this be a movie?’

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That’s just always been my mentality. I’m not really fazed by anything. It’s in the past. There’s nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

It was tough, mentally, at Chelsea not getting the game time, but I had to be really patient and have the mentality to still train right and do all the right things.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it’s been with me since I was a kid. I’ve always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

I want to take Chinese cooking to the next level and bury the takeaway mentality.

I’ve got the same mentality every time I step on the floor – play my hardest and just be locked in.

You ask DeAndre Hopkins or you ask Julio Jones who’s the best receiver, I don’t expect them, even if they did think it was me, I would expect them to say it was them because that’s the kind of mentality you should have.

I want to have an aggressive mentality but a relaxed presence.

The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

My mam worked for 41 years. She was a single working mother. I think I always had that mentality of you can do everything. You can have your kid. You can be a good mother. You can work. She was very independent.

I’m a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.