Quotes About Attitude

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

Do I want to play basketball? You bet your dollar I do. At the same time, I have no control over what my body does. I can just give myself the best opportunity. That's the best attitude I can take.

I just go out there and play basketball. I'll let everything else handle itself.

For me, it's whatever happens, happens. I'm just excited to play basketball. It's a blessing.

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.

It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.

If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

If you play football and you're comfortable with losing, you shouldn't be playing football.

Nah, I don't play golf.

I don't play golf.

They say some people are born with the ability to play golf. I wasn't.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

I'm not the most open player; I'm not the biggest clown. I just like going into the dressing room easy.

No player in this league - they might be really, really good and they look like they're playing nonchalant, but they're not.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

If people's opinion, whether they liked you or not, made you a better player then we'd all be out there on the charm offensive.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

It's not good to have so many key players injured, but there is no point complaining about it.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.