Cory Lidle Quotes

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win at everything.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

In order to do something you must be something.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

I never let myself get desperate.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.