Moeen Ali Quotes

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

As young women, we all feel a pressure to look a certain way, and sometimes it is just too much to handle. But, there are good and bad ways to deal with this pressure. A terrible way to handle this pressure is to complain about all of our flaws and expect other girls to join in.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

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

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

I was a player for 20 years. When there was something bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual standard. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

Everyone has issues, but they're always talking about my issues.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

I had a really rough time from sort of July 2015 to July 2016. I was really struggling with my game.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.