Declan Rice Quotes

I just try to play with more focus on myself; I don't worry too much about the other things that maybe gave me too much pressure in the past.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

It is not very good for your head if you go up and down and up and down. I want to try to keep going up, with my quality and with my decisions that I make.

I'd like to think I improve every day. That's the goal. I try to.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

I did 'Jersey Shore 6' sober, and you really just concentrate on yourself and just being the best person that you can be or be better than you were the day before.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.