Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.

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.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

This is the nature of football - when you are loved by a team, you really feel it, but when you go through bad moments, you are treated differently.

Sometimes I can be on a cloud and then two hours later feel really small.

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

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 don't ever want to get too high or too low.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

Once you are experienced, your mind is calm and at ease.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Joy and sadness come by turns.