Benjamin Watson Quotes

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

Some days you don't always have the energy, but as a player, you have to tell yourself when it's time to pick it up.

I always like to stay even-keeled and just play the game the right way.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

The first thing I learned from Jeter is to be the same no matter if you are doing good or bad. It is kind of like, play hard every day, and don't take anything for granted.

I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

I have to do my homework, be fast and consistent. In that case I have always beaten my team-mates.

I'm always composed, calm, and always believe in my own ability, and if I start well, then I end up having a good game, usually.

I don't talk that much when I do well and I try to talk even less when I'm not doing well. All that really matters is the next game and helping us win.

When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.

It doesn't matter where we play. It doesn't matter whether the season has finished or not. We have to play the same way, stay focused all of the time and go there to win.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.