RJ Barrett Quotes

No team can play really good in 50 games. During the season, you will not play that well all the time.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

I'm able to see things and react certain ways, I try to slither through there and try to make a play.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

If the run game's not working, you'll most likely succeed in the pass game, and even if there's a game where the run game and the pass game's not working, you've got to find a way to continue to win. You can't get too caught up in one play. You can't get too caught up one quarter or one drive.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

Learning to play different roles has made me a more all-round midfielder.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

There are always things we can improve on, but that is normal in football.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

Everyone works so hard on their game and on their body. Most of the time, it comes down to who is more relaxed mentally; on the court while playing and off the court.