Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

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.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

From my dad I learnt that it is very important to stay calm.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.