Derek Jeter Quotes

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

It's hard for anyone or any situation to rattle me, as a quarterback and a person.

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

I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

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

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

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

I must have a God-given talent, which is the ability to multitask, plus I have great retention. I'm not the smartest guy, but I know how to do what I know how to do. I can handle things, and I don't have a lot of highs and lows. Sure, I might do some things for drama, but I'm not really upset. If you get hit across the head, you must move on.

I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those things, really get to me.

When you get 10-15 minutes, you can't be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best. That is in my mind always.

You have to be as strong when things go wrong, but I don't get nervous.

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.

I think the one thing about Kawhi is he literally stays level-headed all the time, he never gives up, he never gets down.

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

For me, playing the game of football, obviously there's a lot of emotions going on. But I always like to keep calm and just be myself.

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

I don't think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.