Jimmy White Quotes

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

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.

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

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

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

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.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

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