Curt Flood Quotes

When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

My therapies went on forever.

Well, I have no time for therapy.

Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

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

I think we're all insecure about something, but there's a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

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

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

I am fortunate that I have a good support network who I felt I could say, 'Hey, I need to find out why I am speaking like this,' and they could find out who I needed to speak to.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

I go to a therapist every week.

Being an NBA player, a lot of stress comes with that: realizing there's a lot of pressure on me and accepting that for what it is, realizing that I might need help, I might need somebody to talk to, accepting that there's nothing wrong with that.