Dan Uggla famous quotes

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.
-- Dan Uggla

#Couple #Fall #Stay Positive

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.
-- Dan Uggla

#Hard Work #Live Your Life #Way

All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.
-- Dan Uggla

#Play #Hitting #Littles

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
-- Dan Uggla

#Thinking #Trouble #Boxes

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.
-- Dan Uggla

#Real #Opportunity #Player

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
-- Dan Uggla

#Defense #Hitting #Very Good

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.
-- Dan Uggla

#Running #Team #Trying

Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

I've been known to make out with girls from time to time. Couple drinks involved, you know. It's fun. And who knows? Maybe it'll go further someday. I don't know.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.