Quotes About Attitude

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

I'm not the type of player that's going to be Johnny Hustle and run down the line and slide to first base. That's just not my personality. That's not my cup of tea. That's not who I am.

I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Life teaches you to go positive every moment in your life.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

Disrespect is bad for the atmosphere around a team.

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

There's always a feeling of revenge any time you lose against any team.

How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

You can't just give up because you lose one game. India has always had the problem that when faced with the crunch matches, the team does not necessarily step up.

I don't want a brat on my team.

There's a big A my team likes to talk about, which is Accepts. If you can't 'accept,' then you're never going to play well in the U.S. Open.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.