Madison Keys Quotes

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

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

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

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.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.