Morgan Wootten Quotes

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

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• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Successful
  • Execution
  • Throw

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• 'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Everyone
  • Hunger

• Of course managers win ball games.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Win
  • Games
  • Ball

• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Age
  • Career
  • Growing

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Serious
  • Basketball
  • Athlete

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • She
  • Winning
  • Promise

• I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • People
  • College
  • Football

• Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

  

  Kenyon Martin
  • She
  • House
  • Car

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Winning

• My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • She
  • Team
  • Dad

• I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Winning

• I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN 'Coaches Corner' show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Basketball

• Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Player

• Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Simple
  • Basketball

• One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Books were at the very heart of the Christian religion—unlike other religions of the empire—from the very beginning. Books recounted the stories of Jesus and his apostles that Christians told and retold; books provided Christians with instruction in what to believe and how to live their lives; books bound together geographically separated communities into one universal church; books supported Christians in their times of persecution and gave them models of faithfulness to emulate in the face of torture and death; books provided not just good advice but correct doctrine, warning against the false teachings of others and urging the acceptance of orthodox beliefs; books allowed Christians to know the true meaning of other writings, giving guidance in what to think, how to worship, how to behave. Books were completely central to the life of the early Christians.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Believe
  • Books
  • Teaching

• Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Up
  • Children
  • Health

• To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Success

• Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

  

  Morgan Wootten
  • Winning
  • Basketball
  • Games