Brooks Robinson Quotes

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Don’t expect to succeed with most of your efforts. Ted Williams, the best baseball hitter of all time, in his best hear only hit 407. He did not succeed 60 percent of the time.

When I couldn't play at West Ham, I kept my mentality, and I went to train every day to be a better player.

I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

I always knew I could make it in baseball.

I haven't done nothing in this league. Every day I come into practice or come into a game, I'm just trying to prove myself.

In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

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.

There are so many talented fighters. And then there are fighters who must work like butchers. They are champions because they work hard every day. I believe I have a little bit of talent, because I learn very quickly, but I'm like the butcher.

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.