Gerald Green Quotes

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.

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.

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

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

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

You look at players who are off form and there's a general disappointment, their confidence goes low and their whole demeanour can change. I've seen it hundreds of times but it's difficult to know what's really going on inside someone's mind.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

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

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

I think when it's a high-stress situation, my tennis definitely takes a big dip.

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.