Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.
If you can't get out of something, get into it.
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.
Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.
Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.
You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.
I can create offensive situations for myself and I can create situations for other people.
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
I never put myself in negative situations unless they happen.
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
