Football Stress Quotes

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

Social media is one of the hardest things about playing for England.

For me posting videos on YouTube and interacting with people on Twitter is a great release from the stresses of football.

The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.

There were players who could leave the result at Anfield, but me? No chance. I got involved in the running of two restaurants in Liverpool to take my mind off football but, before the opening night of each one, I'd played badly. It meant I couldn't enjoy the party. It felt like I had to punish myself.

I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.

In England, especially, mentally if you're not strong it can eat you up. There's the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you're not mentally strong, it can eat you.

Any time you see your quarterback hurt, your heart drops for a second.

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.