John Daly Quotes

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

I don't waste time being depressed.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

The performance anxiety I had is still there. I've been given different kinds of tools and learned how to manage it.

I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I definitely am done with as much drama as I can be done with. I don't think it helps me with any of my business endeavors or the things that I'm excited about.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.