Joe Root Quotes

You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I just try to control what I can control.

I can only focus on what I can control.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

What we can do is control what we can control.

I've always been the type to know that if I'm getting off the track, I know, 'OK, it's time to tighten up.' I feel like I can see it before it comes.

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I don't like to direct myself.

You can only control what you can control.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.