Jayson Williams Quotes

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

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.

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.

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

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

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.

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

I struggle with control.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I'm going to have my moody times.

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

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

I control my anger.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

We realize all the struggles we have and all the things that catch our attention and our hearts - if we're not ready for it, it will take control of us.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

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.

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.