Quotes About Mindset

I just think I have to be a defender. If I can attack, it's a bonus.

I always try to outsmart my defender.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.

I love attacking, but I hate defending and it's something I need to add to my game.

I love coaches that think more about attacking than defending. As a football fan, I think that's wonderful.

I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything like that. It was just - growing up, that's kind of all I knew - was attack, attack, attack.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

My approach is always the same against any defense.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

I feel like I can be a great defensive player when I put my mind to it for the whole game, not just half the game.

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

I'm not the kind of guy who gets defensive after something goes wrong.

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.

I expect to play at an All-Star defensive level, and everything else will come.

If you're defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don't get bigger.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

We define our success internally.

One play don't define a game.

You can't let games define who you are and your character as a player.

Stats don't define me.