Jose Altuve Quotes

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

I need to play well in the majors; that's been my key. That's been something that I've created a pattern in the majors, and I just need to keep improving.

I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.

I want to be the best cricketer I can be for my country. If I work hard, the main aim for me is to be the world's best bowler.

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it's going to be more than just a World Series.

There's no better way to start your career than by playing probably the best guy in the league.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

There's a lot of guys that are able to perform for a short period of time. It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be two months, it could be one season. It's doing it over and over. And being consistent was something that watching Patrick Roy all these years, that's what he was. He never had down years.

I think I play better when people say keep showing us what you've got, keep showing us. And whatever's going to get me to play at a high level is what I want to do.

I match up against everybody well. I just have to stay consistent and keep going out there winning fights.

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it's all the same. Just so you win.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they're great.

I'd be walking off the court thinking I didn't put everything out there, which was the last thing I wanted, so I just went out there and focused on my game, and it worked out great. It's nice to know I can play at that level, but to do it week in, week out is a different challenge, and I want to be able to do that.

When I get 100 percent, and I get to improve on the court, I feel I can be an All-Star.

To go from the middle to the top is one of the most difficult things you can do in sports.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?