Barry Zito Quotes

College was a very necessary step along the way to my professional career. As I look back, I realize how much of an eye opener it was for me in terms of moving forward and developing as a basketball player.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.

If you look at the pipeline of women moving up through the organisation, it's a matter of time and experience that they develop and performance that allows them to move into senior levels.

It's changed the landscape of my career without a doubt. 'Deadwood' started to do that, but then 'Breaking Bad' really shifted everything for me.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

It was a hard decision to leave Norwich, and you have to take into account a lot of things - could I make the step up? Do I want to have another season of really showing what I can do?

You can improve in every stage of your career, and even in training, after training, analysing your game, you can do a lot of stuff to make steps, and that's also a major point of becoming a top player.

I've been around some great coaches and learned a lot from every single stop I've had.

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.

I will always worry about where my career is going and am I any good.

I have always wanted to play with top players and ICL has some of the best domestic players and the competition should be exciting.