Player Attitude Quotes

#1. I was a wise-a** college student of twenty at the time and a precocious musician, with somewhat of that screw-you-I'm-a-jazz-player attitude.

Gene Hull

#2. There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.

Warren Gatland

#3. There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

Jim Brown

#4. My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good ... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports!

Laurent Brancowitz

#5. The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Michael Lewis

#6. With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Shane Warne

#7. To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

Sunil Gavaskar

#8. Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#9. I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

Ritchie Blackmore

#10. When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude,

Jose Mourinho

#11. Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.

Henry Tamburin

#12. He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.

Shelley Long

#13. There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

Katie Uhlaender

#14. One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

Dean Smith

#15. As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.

Skip Prosser

#16. What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

David Robinson

#17. The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.

Warren Gatland

#18. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

John Rocker

#19. The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

Chick Hearn