Rafael dos Anjos Quotes

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 think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

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

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It's my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: 'Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.'

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

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 felt very calm and controlled. That's what you've got to feel and do when it's time to win. It's easy to say, hard to do.

The biggest thing I tell the boys is control the heartbeat. It's hard to do, but we've gotta be able to control the heartbeat in big moments because it goes really quick. So just stay in that moment and focus on the moment, don't get ahead of yourselves, and just play the game that we've been playing all year.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I try to tell young guys - like, if I see a young guy pressing, I try to tell him to relax and play your game.

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

Kicking is a weird thing. You can go stretches and stretches of just doing really good, then you could have one or two kicks that can derail you. You've just got to learn to ride the wave.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

I know how to deal with pressure.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.