Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

I think I'm just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn't come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

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.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

There was a rule for the under-13s at Middlesbrough that you were never allowed to swear. If you did, the manager had to take you off as punishment. But I couldn't stop myself. I'd just get frustrated, I guess.

You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

When I'm disappointed in myself, that frustration comes out a little bit. I don't let it affect my game, but it's something I can definitely work on.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

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.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

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.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

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.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.