Quotes About Attitude

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

I never go by past accolades or failures.

Failures don't bother me much, nor do I let success go to my head.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

My granddad doesn't care if he falls down when he's singing, he's just having a laugh.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.

I'm sorry to say it, but we have to be more arrogant and more streetwise because we are coming up against some great teams who have that streetwise mentality. They bring their play into it: you do what you have to do to win a game. Simple as that. Be streetwise and clever.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I get teased a lot for my optimism.

Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy.

When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom, and if they're competing in class and in football, that's an attitude they take into life.

My dad has never had a mobile phone or computer. And that was the way when I grew up, so I still take tech with a pinch of salt.

I will always forgive a technical error, but I will never forgive the wrong attitude.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

I was like Patrick Vieira. I was technically good, natural, big and strong, but I didn't like a tackle.

Ranjith is such a perfectionist. His visualisation of scenes makes it easy for the technicians as well as the actors. His attitude exudes so much energy that we want to give every shot our best.

I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'

I never dressed like a teddy boy, and I don't like shaving but you've got to do it.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.