Oliver Burke Quotes

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

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.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

I'm actually improving.

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

You can always be a little bit better.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

We can all become better than we are.

Work Hard, Study, and Keep Out of Politics

I honestly thought I was going to win a major championship quicker than what I did, but it clearly took a little bit longer than expected.

I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.