Don't be against things so much as for things.


Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.


Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.


Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.


Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.


Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.


Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.


Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.


Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.


He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.


I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.


I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.


I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right — shame on you!


I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.


I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.


I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.


I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.


I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.


If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.


If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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