Jon Beason Quotes

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

I've always been able to move on and contain. I get mad, I get frustrated. No one gets more upset when they miss a kick than I do. But I have to be able to get over it for the sake of the team and my own job.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

I've learned to brush off many things.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

A winner never whines.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

Even before I entered the industry, my parents always told me never let success get to your head and failure to your heart.

There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.

Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there's also disappointment that comes along the way. So it becomes about how you deal with the ups and downs.

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

You don't play as well as you want in the first half - I mean, who cares? Put it behind you. There's always a next play to be had.

Interceptions are gonna happen. You can't worry about that. 'I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.' That's my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I've got no chance.