Donte DiVincenzo Quotes

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

I've just got to go in there and get some quality at-bats and do my job and help the team win any way I can.

I have total faith in my abilities, total faith in what I can do on the pitch, and I just have to focus on that, on my game, and help the team be successful, and I have no worries.

I definitely learned that when you stay humble, you really focus on the work, and you remember that it's about the work. And you have people working with you who support you and love you, then nothing can go wrong.

My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.

I don't have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I'm collaborative.

I don't talk that much when I do well and I try to talk even less when I'm not doing well. All that really matters is the next game and helping us win.

I don't know how far, I don't know where I'm going to be or where I'm going to go, but I know this - if a team comes to grab me, I know they're going to get a special player, and I'm ready to show them what I can do and make sure I can contribute.

I told our players at Butler, 'I hate to break it to you, but you aren't playing beyond here. That's reality. So why are you so concerned with yourself?' It's a hard lesson, but I told them, 'How you handle your role on this team will be remembered by your coaches and your teammates. It will define you.'

And in an Ashes series the best approach as a player is to not get caught up in feeling pressure for your position but to think only about the greater cause. How can I contribute? It could be a single moment, like a blinding catch or a run out. Think only of the team's needs.

I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just here with the Panthers, trying to help them win.

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That's all I hoped to accomplish. I don't really care about legacies.

If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.

My philosophy for football is to be happy with what you're doing. When they say that you're one of the strongest in the world, you need to carry on in the same way as you do when they say that you're dead.

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.

If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.

There's not a lot of ego in the Broadway community. Everyone's out to do well.

Show up, shut up, and shine.

Although I never think about goals and assists, I believe in my skills and I just want to play good and be important for the team... then everything will be OK.