Anthony Rizzo Quotes

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

You have to get better every year. You have to add tools to the toolbox every year.

Of course we believe we can always improve because the moment that you think you cannot improve anymore you go backwards.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

I don't care how long you've been in this league, you always have to be growing and improving.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

Sometimes a player thinks it's enough what they did the year before and doesn't understand that every day they should improve.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

Definitely, I've learned a lot, each and every day.

I know that I need to keep growing as a player.

Every player can still grow - there is no limit to that. Even when I was 38, I improved myself in certain things, and that is what I will always do with my players to help them get the best out of themselves.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.