Quotes About Attitude

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.

I've been up and down the order. I'm just happy to get a game and wherever I'm told to bat or told to bowl I'll do it.

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

I'm a fairly upbeat and happy guy, you know? I don't like people that feel sorry for themselves, and I traditionally stay away from people like that.

I've always been reasonably upbeat about most things.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.

Obviously, you're going to have your ups and your downs, but the more ups I can have and the quicker the downs are, the better I'll be.

I've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but I don't look back on anything with regret.

Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.

I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.