Andrew Strauss Quotes

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

Players' moods change on a daily basis, so it depends how you find your players, and up to you to get the best out of them.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

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.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

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

I like to be funny. I can't stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.

I've done specific work to take care of anxiety. I believe that the psychological side can work for you just as it can against you. The better your command is over the psychological aspect, the better your physical performance. There's no other way.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

When I was with the Bulls, I was very dysfunctional.

Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.

As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It's not natural for me to be like that.

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions.

A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

There is too much cricket being played. You need time away to get your mind in order to reach the optimum level.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.