Ben Zobrist Quotes

I have the tools and the size to be a good defender. I've just got to be able to put it all together.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

Each game helps me to continue improving, which is what I want. I want to improve in defense, on the ball, score more goals. I never want to get tired of improving.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask 'what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?' Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you work hard.

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

I'm not Ed Reed. I'm Eric Weddle, and you're going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there's no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.

Everybody knows that I can play defense. I've showed at times that I can score, but I just think they want to know, 'How consistent are you in your moves?'

For me, it's about consistently churning out performances and looking to improve at the same time.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

If I've had a bad game, I know I've had a bad game, and I don't mind hearing it.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

You can look at every game, some where I've been a defensive player and others where I've had an impact.

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.