One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It’s a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
We’ve had to pay to play. We’ve had to borrow kit. We’ve had to train on a Friday night. Maybe a lot of boys, given that opportunity, would slip away, whereas we’ve had the mentality to go, ‘I really want this. I’m going to show that I can do this.’
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
For the most part, if you’re willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward.
You train far more in France than in England. Here, we still see football as a game. Football is a job. There is still the mentality where training is at 11, you come in at 10:30, and when it is finished, you leave straight away.
Being No. 1. It’s talked about all of the time in hip-hop. ‘I’m still No. 1! I’m the best! I’m the greatest of all time!’ It’s the same mentality in sports.
I always look for a challenge. Maybe it’s part of my mentality to create something special.
That mentality that I have every year – that I have to prove myself to everyone that I’m a good player – that’s the thing that keeps me going. That’s my motivation.
What I look for are guys that work hard, have a great work ethic and embrace that underdog mentality a little bit. And certainly there is no substitute for toughness.
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I’ll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.
I hate canceling anything, I’m ‘the show must go on’ mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.
If you look at the brands that I like, there are brands I like because of the clothes; then, there are brands I like because of their attitude and mentality.
Salah is a tough guy. Always calm and strong, with the mentality of a hard worker. I’ll never forget his training sessions: very high rhythm, pushed like a madman, you watched him in amazement.
No matter how good you are, your mentality has got to be right. A lot of young players, that’s where they go wrong, and that’s what I’ve always seen when I was growing up – players who are almost there but couldn’t quite get there because the mentality wasn’t right.
It’s like this: I’ve had the same mentality since I was five years old.
Essentially, the BJP is nothing more than a north Indian party. Its mentality is also north Indian. They are quite capable of backtracking on the issues relating to Tamil Nadu if it suits them. But I will not allow that.
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
I’ve been learning about defunding our investment in police force mentality, and reinvesting in, what do young people need? What do people who get involved in drugs need, what do families need outside of money to take care of their families?
Life is short. Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing – that’s such a herd mentality. And don’t do something that’s two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.
Luke Walton was the worst coach ever for Lonzo ’cause he had a losing mentality.
It can be hard to keep that mentality but I know that to play your best you can’t be worrying about getting dropped, because then you just go into your shell even more and play safe. I’ve just got to come out and play how I know I can play – that’s the way that you get the best out of yourself.
Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, ‘Right, you’re here for two weeks.’ What you’re doing is creating a siege mentality.
In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.
To be a Manchester United player, it requires a certain level of performance, mentality, and you have got to be proud to be a Manchester United player.
I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it’s me. I’m very French.
When the whole fighting thing started, I never knew at the end it was going to be all about your record. I never had that mentality. I wanted to fight everybody.
The mistake that all ‘long-term poor people’ make is putting others under a microscope in an attempt to set blame. That right there is a true loser’s mentality (or ‘poppycock’ if you will).
There’s a certain mentality that military brats have, you know? Especially if you’re a male, and your father’s the one in the forces.
My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don’t know what bowlers see while batting.
I have the highest goals for myself. That’s going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That’s my mentality. If it’s Michael Jordan, you know, that’s the mentality I take to the court.
I don’t feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I’m ‘edgy.’ Been there, done that mentality. I’m just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist.
The mentality is nonstop, to work for what you want, your mind keeping your body in the best shape possible.
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let’s retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.
My mentality is I have to be better for my teammates.
I think our team kind of strives on weirdness sometimes. We have that ‘rah-rah, rally’ sort of American mentality that we can all kind of get around.
We don’t ever want to be complacent, and it’s good to look back and see places you can improve. That’s a good mentality to have.
I’ve got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
I don’t think ‘my way or the highway’ works, that mentality. And that’s what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I’m sorry – that doesn’t work in business, that doesn’t work in your family, it certainly doesn’t work in government and our Congress.
You have to have a mentality, you can’t fail. You have to do it. That’s what’s helped me a lot.
It’s the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who’s always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.
I’ve tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.
Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.
Anyone seeking a real solution in Israel and Palestine rejects the us-versus-them mentality entirely.
I applied the same mentality to my social media as I did when I was doing my boot camps. I thought, well, no one’s watching, but I’ll keep adding value, putting out good recipes, funny workouts and good videos. And it grew and grew.
Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions – most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.
My own mentality is that I’ve retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
I have that blue-collar mentality. I’ve always played with a chip on my shoulder, and I’ve always been hungry to learn.
I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.
English football is evolving. It’s no longer the game it used to be. Apart from the larger quantities of money which make it more attractive to foreign stars, the mentality is also different – everybody looks to win games no matter what, even if it means taking risks.
I’m going to outplay you. That’s the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.
I don’t like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman – and they do.
If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, ‘Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?’ That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.
