Matt Nagy Quotes

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

It's just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don't get upset over bad shots or anything like that.

Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

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.

We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

I think that all I can do is try and keep myself stress-free and away from any type of result-orientated thinking, and go and do my work and tell a story.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.