Wojciech Szczesny Quotes

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that's coming off a good game or a bad game.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

If you let in a goal, you don't sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.

Sometimes you have to work through some things, and the mental side of kicking is definitely there.

Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.

Obviously kicking is very mental and if you do struggle it is a little harder to go out there with confidence, but the good ones, if they miss they can bounce right back and make the next one.

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.

In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

Once you graduate from the Under-19 level, no one really gives you technical advice. It is all about making mental adjustments.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

My experience with Australia in the 1997 Ashes series taught me that fighting back is a combination of technique and mindset.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

When I was at Everton, I went through a lot of up and down spells, lacking in confidence.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

I think in football, most of it is just mental.

It's not only what happens on the court that makes us the players we are; it's also everything that happens outside the court.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.