Greg Maddux Quotes

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I just have to play my best against my opponents.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

The most important thing is to try to be focused on yourself, try to make yourself fit, and make sure your mind is ready, whatever will happen in your club or in your future club. That's part of our job.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don't think that way, and that's why they get to where they are: they don't worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.

I could see that I was losing weight and sometimes I'd see a few good comments and that spiralled me to be like: 'This is how I need to stay.' No one cares whether your performance was good, or if you sounded great.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

I focus on myself, that's how I beat Wladimir Klitschko.

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.