Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

The Premier League is so competitive so we have to be very attentive, very focused and not relax in any way - especially when it is thought to be a winnable game.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.

I just play an overall game.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game it is. It's such a mental sport, and it's beautiful. I think definitely the mental aspect, the stats, and the mathematics, that, to me, really blew me away.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.