Ronnie O'Sullivan Quotes

If I miss a pass at practice, I'm ticked off.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

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.

When I'm disappointed in myself, that frustration comes out a little bit. I don't let it affect my game, but it's something I can definitely work on.

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.

I'm terrible with patience.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

I let football drive me crazy. If we lost, I would shut myself away for two or three days, not sleeping, torturing myself about what I did.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

I really don't get angry.

It is tough, you don't want to lose games.

I hate losing and I think it's good to feel a stab of anger if it happens.

Once it's over and you understand what's going on, it's a shame. You want to win three sets.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

You try to stay as even-keel as possible; obviously, it's always more difficult when you're going through a tough season.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.