Ben Zobrist Quotes

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

Keeping your sense of self is important.

I'm a person, and like any person, I have feelings.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man.