Annette Bening Quotes

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

The one opinion that experience does for you is it keeps you cool, calm, and collected under pressure.

I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.

I just try to play my normal game, and I don't let other people bother me.

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.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

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.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those things, really get to me.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

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.

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.