Quotes About Attitude

If I play one day, one day not play, I'm good.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

I have to play the hand that was dealt me.

I want to do the best I can with the situation I'm dealt.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

It's always important to respond after a defeat.

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.

We never played for 1-0 and then defend. We always went for the second goal and the third.

I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.

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.

Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.

That's the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

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

We define our success internally.