Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

I get too hyped before games.

It's a safe bet most players would get nervous before a match. I do, too, but it's more excitement and more just wanting to get going, and I feel the same.

It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I think paying attention, watching the pitcher, watching the game develop, putting yourself in situations you're not even in yet, anticipating the game, stuff like that, I think that really helps you take that extra step.

Before the match starts I visualise that I will try to rotate the strike and take singles. But if I see that the players batting before me are struggling, and the wicket is not playing that good, I try to dominate from the first ball.

When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting. I'm doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper's a little bit shorter, I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of things.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous, maybe not sleep the night before a game.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

There is no point in getting nervous. I get a few butterflies in my stomach, but it isn't really nerves but things that will help your game.

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

I get nervous before every single game, but I think it's a good sign. It means I care and want it to go as well as it possibly can.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

There is no point making ourselves nervous before a match.

I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.