Sue Bird Quotes

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

As a fan, Kirk Cousins has this very quiet, composed, confident demeanor that seems to be pretty even-keeled. We don't see him show a ton of emotion. I think that's part of what makes him successful, that he's able to not get too high or too low throughout the course of the game and he keeps his head down, keeps plugging away.

Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

I always like to stay even-keeled and just play the game the right way.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

I have to be tough in my work environment and tough in the world.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

You're going to go through ups; you're going to go through downs. But staying steady is most important, and being able to bounce back is also very important.