Quotes About Attitude

Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.

Work like a captain. Play like a pirate.

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

My perception of a professional gambler has always been a positive one.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I'd play professionally.

People have different opinions. They are entitled to that and as professionals we get on with it and forget about it and concentrate on what we do on the pitch.

I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

There have been times I've said a few things in anger when we've lost. But it's just how I'm programmed. I want to win.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

My dad programmed me to be aggressive as a young player. He always told me to go to the rim. Live in the paint.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

I always think that age is a natural progression, and I'm ready for it. Whatever. I'm going to be the best 85-year-old that I can be if I'm still around.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.