Jazz Jennings Quotes

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

I don't torture myself.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

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

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Mind over mattress.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

I work too hard to let something affect me that's already happened.

I understand that when people try to wind me up, it's because I'm playing well. Whenever I had trouble, it was because I reacted to something. Now I'm much more focused on the game and on doing my job.

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

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

I think there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, whether it's the sheer volume of work or personal circumstances. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this, too, will pass, and take it one day at a time.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

There were some coaches, some teammates, some sports psychology people who I could trust and rely on. They were very important to keep me focused on the right things - the things which would be beneficial to me instead of catastrophising things and worrying about things which were not in my control.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.