Sports Stress Quotes

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

As professional sportsmen at the top of the game we do have worries. We do think of the worst and that's absolutely fine. There's no weakness in feeling like that.

You are under pressure when you play to avoid relegation.

Football doesn't bother me. I just enjoy it. It's when you have to go to clubs and sing and do initiations and all that stuff. That's when I get nervous.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

It must be very daunting being an individual sportsman.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

In the intervening 48 Christmases I have always either been a player, having to watch what I eat and drink, or a manager, worrying about what my players are eating and drinking, plus who is going to cry off tomorrow, who is suspended, who is carrying an injury, and the million-and-one other questions that fill a manager's every waking moment.

The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.