Gena Showalter Quotes

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

I don't have any expectations.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

There's something about winning that's contagious.

The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I'm too cynical.

The bigger the crowd, the more likely I'll do whatever it takes to win.

I always want to win when I play, but sometimes I just can't get that interested all the time.

I take every rep personally. If somebody beats me, I'm going to take that personally.

I want to win games; I don't want to lose games.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

I'm surprised by Cristiano Ronaldo every day because of the ambition he has to win. That infects all his teammates.