Jim Kelly Quotes

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

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

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

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.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

You know how some people get worked up about things? That's a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don't know - like, I feel like I don't want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.