Jason Hammel Quotes

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Some games don't go the way you want them to go, but you still have to find a way to win.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling bad that you have to step up. That's when champions step up. They pull through.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

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.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

In tournament football, you cannot dwell on things for too long.

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

Kicking is a weird thing. You can go stretches and stretches of just doing really good, then you could have one or two kicks that can derail you. You've just got to learn to ride the wave.

Resilience can go an awful long way.