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Motivation Quote by Brett Hull

"I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round"

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Impatience usually reads like a flaw athletes should sand down. Brett Hull flips it into an identity: the same engine that makes him lethal also makes him sloppy. The blunt repetition - "I'm very impatient. I am". - feels less like confession than preemptive framing. He’s not asking to be excused; he’s telling you how the machine works.

The line lands because it’s anti-mythmaking. Sports culture loves the serene assassin, the Zen competitor who slows the game down. Hull offers the messier truth: instinct is a superpower until it isn’t. "I don't think... I just go hit it" is almost a mission statement for a certain kind of star, the kind who lives off rhythm and aggression. It’s also a quiet admission that confidence can be indistinguishable from impulse. The subtext is accountability without melodrama: he knows exactly where the leak is in his performance, and he names it in the language of the scorecard, not the therapist's couch.

"Costs me two shots a round" is the kicker: a tidy, quantifiable penalty that makes the flaw feel real, not poetic. He’s measuring personality in strokes, turning temperament into stats. In context, it’s a window into elite competition’s constant trade-off between flow and control. Hull is basically saying: my gift is speed of decision; my tax is the moments when speed becomes haste. The honesty is the brand, and the brand is credibility.

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Hull, Brett. (2026, January 17). I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-impatient-i-am-thats-the-bane-of-my-game-42875/

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Hull, Brett. "I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-impatient-i-am-thats-the-bane-of-my-game-42875/.

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"I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-impatient-i-am-thats-the-bane-of-my-game-42875/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Brett Hull (born August 9, 1964) is a Athlete from USA.

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