Virat Kohli Quotes

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

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.

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.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.

I feel like I've always been a great fighter but I'm learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with emotion and adrenaline and going out there and brawling like a maniac.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

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.

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

You can't control yourself in a game while people are screaming at you, teammates, referees trying to get in the middle. So you end up doing things without thinking.

I've always been able to move on and contain. I get mad, I get frustrated. No one gets more upset when they miss a kick than I do. But I have to be able to get over it for the sake of the team and my own job.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

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

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.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.