Johan Santana Quotes

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

When you are a professional, you go into the next game wanting to win.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

I pride myself on what I do every night. I pride myself on my work ethic and how I carry myself. I want to be mature in my approach but focused and disciplined.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Sometimes you lose the head a bit, and lose your position, when you should be more relaxed and hold your position, which is better for the team.

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.

You don't step back and have less motivation when you get older, the opposite is true. You become more focused, more professional in terms of things like looking after your body and more determined because you can see all the younger players coming up, looking for your place.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

We can only control what we do on the pitch and what we do on the training ground.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

When I'm wearing my uniform I'm still locked into the game.

I've fought in front of thousands of people and never responded to the crowd. I got there, did my job, and left.