Greg Harden

I can’t teach Tom Brady how to throw the ball. I can’t teach Desmond Howard how to catch the ball. I can’t teach Michael Phelps how to do a perfect flip turn. All I can do is teach you how to become the world’s greatest expert on one subject: Yourself.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Never forget that you are the only person who has control over your own mind.

If you make it your mindset, your vision of who you are, that you’re going to make it a habit to give 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, in everything you do—if you make that your norm, your base level, your default mode—then on your absolutely worst day, even when you slip, you’re still going to be better than the average person on their BEST day.

Regulate your own moods independent of external forces.

Stop being afraid of being afraid.

Your very best friend should always be yourself.

Human beings are the only creatures with the ability to decide they’re not going to be the same today as they were yesterday.

If beating yourself up works for you, have at it! If you’re happy being miserable, then by all means continue! But if those things are not working for you... You need to recalibrate, reframe, deprogram, and reprogram how you see yourself and how you talk to yourself.