Joe Root Quotes

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

It's never easy in the Champions League, but you never know what can happen.

In the NBA, if you can't defend your position, they're going to go at you over and over again.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

Defeat is tough.

I don't want to take it easy.

Changing an opponent shouldn't be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it's boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.

Every season is tough.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

To choose always the hardest.

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.