Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive.

My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.

That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

Generally I don't say too much on the field. However, I am a fast bowler and with that comes the responsibility of saying a word or two and getting in a guy's face.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

I'm not a real vocal guy, but sometimes you need to kick someone in the ass.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.

We need to play like somebody took our lunch money, like somebody disrespected your mother. I think that's the type of anger you need have and the aggression you need to have on the court. That doesn't mean making mad faces or mean faces but it means attacking the glass, strongly attacking the rim when you have the ball on offense.

If I get on a roll then I will steamroll people.

If I play against you the first time - or it doesn't even have to be the first time - and you want to be all physical and just talk, or talking trash or whatever, it just gets me going.

I still wanna keep my aggressive ways and let my skills be on display.

One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.

We like to play with a chip on our shoulder.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

I like to attack obviously.

I'm a team guy, obviously. When a team needs me to be aggressive, I have to be aggressive.

When I glare, I don't see it as aggression. I have just got such passion to get wickets. I don't ever say anything, I just have a look and see if I can get their mind concentrating on other things and get them outside their bubble. I like to get them switched on, have a look and get in a bit of a battle.

Whenever a play is called I'm going to be who I am. I'm going to be aggressive.

If it were up to me, I'd be fighting chumps.

Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

I always want to fight guys that want to test me.