Quotes About Attitude

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

I think everything starts with a mindset, and I learned that from a young age.

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

At a very young age, I realized that with my disability, I could cry or laugh.

We're trained from a very young age not to show weakness. And I was very good at that throughout my career.

I don't mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.

Young kids do not see tennis as a 'fun' sport.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.

I don't like the trash talking too much. When my opponents say something, for sure I respond, I say something, too. I don't start the trash talk.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

I don't like when people talk trash and then they get the W after and they feel like they did something. I don't like that feeling.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

You want to travel in a good mood; you don't want to be mad about a loss.

When I've traveled to London and Ireland, people don't seem to take themselves so seriously, and it's not just having a sense of humor about what's around you but having a sense of humor about yourself, and that's the healthiest sense of humor.