Ben Zobrist Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Talent will come out.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

People haven't seen enough of me. My fights haven't gone the distance, and people have a lot of questions. I want to find out for myself as much as the people do. I want to find out what I can do.

I do think I fulfilled my potential.

Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.

It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.

Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are.

I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.