Brian Jordan Quotes

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M.

You don't want to get too far ahead of yourself; you just want to take care of your body and make sure you're doing the right things to give yourself a chance to get through the season.

I know what I'm capable of doing. I just want to stay fit and healthy and let my football take care of itself.

I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

Taking care of yourself turns into a lifestyle after you're done playing. So you don't just fall off the wagon.

You can deal with a little pain. It's just about making sure you can throw the ball good enough to go out there and help your team.

A lot of athletes want to have a break, but they don't do it.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

I've definitely got better over the years at conserving my energy in pre-season - at knowing what to focus on and what to let go.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

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 can't predict the future. All I can do is continue to try to stay in shape and work on my game and have a clear mind and not try to think about negative stuff.

Whether we are happy or sad, we should constantly work hard in our life since it will help balance our mind.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

One of the key lessons I learned at Netflix was the necessity of focus.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train for a race when you know you won't have the same result as before? And should you even join if you know you can't run the whole race? Absolutely - just run-walk it.