Ben Zobrist Quotes

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

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.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I try to stay focused.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

You have to train your mind just as much as you train your body.

I've been in baseball my whole life, so I understand there's a lot in baseball that is out of your control, and you have to focus on the things you can control.

The F-word here is focus.