Lindsay Mendez Quotes

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.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

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

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

I never let myself get desperate.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

I tell aspiring young skaters to dream big, work hard, have fun, and follow their passion. It's simple to say never give up, but learn from your mistakes to keep growing.

Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.