Terry Pratchett Quotes

I expect to beat everybody I play. It's kind of that quiet confidence that I have inside that I try to present to the opponent without getting too overboard. Because there are times when I seem composed, but inside I'm losing my mind.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

As a driver, you've always got to believe in your heart that you've got what it takes to win it. You've always got to believe in yourself. You've always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You've always got to believe in the positives.

When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.

That's why I won: because I believed I had a chance.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

I dont believe in pressure. Pressure doesnt affect me at all.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Patience is emotional diligence.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.