The Mindful Athlete Quotes

“Respond from the center of the hurricane, rather than reacting from the chaos of the storm.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“We can either make ourselves miserable,” he says, “or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“The hardest thing, after all the work and all the time spent on training and technique, is just being fully present in the moment.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Success is 99% failure.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Monkey mind is actually a Buddhist term that refers to a mind that is restless, agitated, confused, or that is hard to control.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“When things get tough and our bodies start to react, we need mindfulness to reset our internal north star. We need to be quiet, listen, and practice conscious breathing to bring ourselves back to the present moment and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, putting the brake on and slowing things down in our bodies.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“It’s way easier and more “comfortable” to stew in anger and resentment, for example, than to practice forgiveness. But the former will keep you mired in unwholesome thoughts and feelings, while the latter will open the door to true transformation and make you strong. “Anyone can hold a grudge,” Doe Zantamata wrote, “but it takes a person with character to forgive. When you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden. Forgiveness doesn’t mean what happened was okay, and it doesn’t mean that person should still be welcome in your life. It just means that you have made peace with the pain, and are ready to let it go.”When we let go of unnecessary emotional baggage, we are, quite simply, freer on every level.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Show me strong; show me smart.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“There are always calamities, extreme circumstances can make you stronger. This is what’s called having a strong sense of self-efficacy: the ability to tell yourself that no matter what happens, you will take everything as a challenge. You’ll rise to the occasion and say, “Okay, the going is tough but this is going to be great!”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” If there’s no romancing the discomfort zone, there’s no growth.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”15”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Mindfulness helps us step back, observe those self-defeating thoughts without judgment, and abandon them. But when we are not in the present moment and we’re listening to that self-critic, here’s what can happen: We can get so keyed up (“No, I’ve got to shoot real quick, because I want to make it”) that our energy is channeled through a narrow, tense spectrum. We rarely get into flow that way. On the contrary, we get in our own way.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. —BUDDHA”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Then one day I thought to myself: Okay, what would happen if I brought the same quality of interest, wonder, and investigation that I do with other things to this teabag dilemma to see what’s going on? What if I just say to myself, “Well, how can I do this?”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“His advice, and his support helped me become confident in myself.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“My parents did the best they could, all things considered.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“We can either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance