Heywood Broun Quotes

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

I was forced to learn a lot about psychology as a player, and as a captain to get the best out of others. There's still a lot of scepticism about it in sport and the workplace, but dealing with fluctuations of form, and pressure, and being away from home are more important than your cover-drive.

Some players respond to shouting; some don't. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager's strengths to understand that some don't respond to that.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

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.

Handling pressure is the key to doing well in Indo-Pak matches.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don't want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

When things are tough in training camp; when things are tough in season; when it's good, you don't want guys hitting too high or too low or depressed. It's just draining for everybody.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.

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

So I don't see any stress from players or coaches with coaching during the matches, to be honest.

The crowd could be tough to deal with at times, but I learned to use them and the way they behaved towards me as strong motivation.

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.

I think, as an athlete, you tend to be cautious of your body language and what you're doing on the ice. That might be the only moment someone sees you.

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.

It's easy to become angry, but when you get better, you channel your energy into the game.