Divock Origi Quotes

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

I want balance in my life.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

I think that all I can do is try and keep myself stress-free and away from any type of result-orientated thinking, and go and do my work and tell a story.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

In college, everything's structured. In the NBA, it's like, you have a lot of free time, and you have to use it wisely. A lot of the time, you're in a hotel room all day. And rest is really the most important thing. Then, just trying to enjoy yourself and have fun.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.

In the beginning, I took on every opportunity because I was so determined to get my name and music out there. You can get your sleep, but honestly your brain needs a break, too, and so many people forget that.

There are days when you are busy even without having work as you are going for auditions. So you are not acting in a way. To sustain yourself mentally, physically, emotionally is challenging for sure.

If you look at any Mumbai guy, he starts to handle pressure at a very young age. Starts at the school level, then the pressure from parents, from the coaches.

It is important to work. It is important for my mind.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.