Jaap Stam Quotes

I want to improve every part of my game.

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

As I get better competition, I guarantee that more finishes are gonna come, because I'll really get to use more of my skill, rather than me knowing that I'm so much better than the guy.

Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

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've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.

I try to get stronger every year, that's part of me trying to be better as a football player.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I've been in this sport only four years, and I know that I'll keep learning and improving.

I feel like I have grown with the sport.

Well, I'm definitely gonna focus on being a better all-around player.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.