Jos Buttler Quotes

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

Coach Smart did a great job of just letting me come to terms with myself as a basketball player and a person.

I am not afraid to ask for feedback on my work or appearance, and try to never take that advice personally.

Just have to worry about making sure I'm playing my game and doing all that.

When you get traded, the first thing you have to do is self-reflect and think about how you can get better. It has only helped me become a better player and think the game through.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.