All I can do is concentrate on what I'm doing, playing as well as I can at Celtic. Whatever happens outside, happens. I just need to do everything in my control, playing well.
I'm just trying to focus on playing my game and playing well, and whatever happens afterwards, we'll see.
I still want to play for my country, I'm still ambitious. But things like that are out of my control so I'll just concentrate on trying to do well for Celtic and see what happens.
I'm just playing my game and trying to help my team win. Whatever happens, happens.
When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.
All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.
I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.
There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."
It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we're not dying to break America.
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.