L. Lionel Kendrick Quotes

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

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.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.