Frank Rijkaard Quotes

One thing about me is that I don't like to be sad all the time.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

As players we know pressure is part and parcel of what we do.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Unhappy is a nice word.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

Today, we celebrate happiness. Happiness is supposed to make us better workers and parents and partners; it's supposed to make us live longer. In the 16th century, sadness was thought to do most of those things. It's possible to read self-help books from that period which try to encourage sadness in readers by giving them lists of reasons to be disappointed. These self-help authors thought you could cultivate sadness as a skill, since being expert in it would make you more resilient when something bad did happen to you, as invariably it would. I think we could learn from this today. Feel sad today, and you might feel impatient, even a little ashamed. Feel sad in the 16th century, and you might feel a little bit smug.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

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.

With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.

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.

I am a human being: sometimes I am happy, but sometimes I am not feeling that great or not in a mood.