Vijay Shankar Quotes

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

In football, you just have to develop yourself.

I gotta work on my overall game.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

Football is not just what you do on the field.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.