Grayson Allen Quotes

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

I just try to do my best every at-bat. That's what I plan to do.

I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

You can take your play seriously as long as you seriously play.

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

We can only control what we do on the pitch and what we do on the training ground.

The main thing is how we play and how we work in training.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

I have to continue to train hard and when I have time to play I have to play well.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

Nadal tries his best all the time, every point. But Kyrgios can spend 10 minutes looking like he would rather be walking down the King's Road.

I try to bring the same energy every game.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

You can't have two or three games where you let your level drop.

I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.