Dojo Mindset

Quotes on Athletic performance to help you improve your disc golf game.

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

– Arthur Ashe

“Champions get hit over and over and over. You know, it’s the champion that decides to keep moving forward. It’s how many punches can you take and keep moving forward until you win.”

– Doc Rivers (from The Playbook)

“What is delayed is not denied”

– old proverb

“At times you have to learn the steps to becoming a national champion, and one of those steps is losing, because it’s all about momentum, and momentum doesn’t mean it’s a positive thing. You can have momentum to lose and be defeated. You can have 24 hours to bask in your victory, or you got 24 hours to agonize in your defeat, and then we put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.”

– Dawn Staley

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

– Brian Tracy

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

– Mia Hamm

“I don’t really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.”

– Simone Biles

“Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.”

– Spartan Warrior Credo

“A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.”

– Nancy Lopez
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash… Be water my friend.”
– Bruce Lee

“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.”

—Magic Johnson

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

– Muhammad Ali

“I was prepared with a lot of towels. I think that’s the #1 thing in the rain is you running out of towels…Making sure I have dry hands and dry discs that allows me to do well. I think that’s why I play so well in the rain.”

– Ricky Wysocki (after winning 2022 Discraft’s GMC)

“You must be 100% committed to each action. If there are doubts in your mind your muscles won’t know what to do.”

– Gary Mack

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”

– Yoda

“Every single season I set a goal. . . it’s usually two goals. It’s something very serious and something funny, something stupid.”

– Shaun White

“The first mistake that many athletes make when faced with frustration is to just increase their effort.”

– Dr. Jim Taylor

“Learn from the past. Prepare for the future. Perform in the present.”

― Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“If more information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”

– Derek Silvers

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