Graham Potter Quotes

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I could have started playing professional at 16, 17 quite easily. For my position, I was far better than a lot of people around me. All the people in front of me had was experience but, talent-wise, I easily could get in.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing...