Garth Brooks Quotes

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I was glad I did a year abroad, because it helped me as an athlete and as a person. That took me out of my comfort zone. Watching the French athletes train in the Pyrenees made me realise what I had to do to become a top athlete.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.