Dan Quinn Quotes

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

There's nothing wrong in starting all over again and taking it step-by-step.

If I miss a shot, make a turnover - move on to the next play, don't compound the mistake by getting down.

It doesn't matter what happened in the season or what happened the last play, there's always an opportunity to make the next play.

It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

Everybody gets frustrated when they lose. But at the end of the day I can control what I do. Whatever team I'm on, let's roll.

I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

Even if I do miss a shot, I'm going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I'm not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.

We must take on each match as best we can and try to recover from each as quickly as possible.

One of our big duties as a player is not to dwell on the past and stay in the now because that's the only way you're going to continue to move forward and be successful.

It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

I do not pay any heed to the negative thoughts, I just go with the plan my team gives me.

I just do the job to the best of my ability and then you have to move on. You have to watch things back to learn from them, but I try not to dwell or worry about what people might think. I don't read reviews if I can help it.

You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.

Shake it off and move on.

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?