Quotes About Control

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

Body does what mind prefers.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Stay calm and aggressive.

Golf is played with the arms.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.