Stephen Hough Quotes

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.

In tournament football, you cannot dwell on things for too long.

It's my job to be able to deal with adverse conditions as well as kick well in good conditions. I just look to prepare to go out to do well no matter what it is.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

We have to take every game as it comes.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure