Derek Hough Quotes

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.

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

Every man makes his own pressure.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.

Our state of mind affects completely how we treat our bodies.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

I don't need to be too intense. I don't play my best golf when I'm super-intense.

I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.

It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not.

That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

Pressure is self-inflicted.

The emotions can take you out of a game.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.