Stress Handling Quotes

For whatever reason, I'm pretty good with pressure. I kinda just flip it over and think of it as positive.

It took me a lot to learn to control adrenaline; and other sports you use adrenaline to your advantage.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

It's about who holds their nerve under pressure.

I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.

People handle stress in different ways.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.

It took me a long time to figure out how to deal with pressure.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

Mourinho is a coach who is used to working under pressure.

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.

I'm always impressed by how fighters can compartmentalize their lives before big fights.

I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

I've always felt how players handle the pressure was the most interesting part of golf.

I don't know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure