Quotes About Attitude

If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

Playing on Sky Sports doesn't really make a difference to me.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

Each sportsman behaves differently.

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.

The way I've always dealt with disappointment or challenges in my life is to find the bright spot and focus on it.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.

I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

In the NFL, there's never really that moment where you're like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.

I think public criticism of players can go one of two ways: either the players will want to raise a proverbial middle finger at their manager and prove them wrong, or the squad will go within themselves and performances will deteriorate.

I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.

For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn't as much media or there wasn't as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.

In Italy, you lose a game, you can't walk out of the stadium without having a police escort. You lose a game in England and you get out and, as long as you've done your best, you are asked to sign autographs and you see the kids and you see everybody and nothing happens.

Always be nice to the front desk staff because they can choose to make your life a living hell, and they'll remember you.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

We played by feel. We felt as though you could put us on any stage, and we would find a way to win that crowd over. We had that attitude: We can't fail. You might not like it right now, but you will.

What I bring to the stage is humility.

I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.