Maggie Smith Quotes

I don't want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don't want to take focus from anybody else.

You need confidence to play under pressure.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

If someone drops a catch, and I get angry, will that catch come back to us? It won't. Therefore, it is better to be cool, because that helps in better performance.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

Obviously, I don't want to be too emotional. I just kind of want to use my energy on the court so I can just be able to be effective on both ends of the floor.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

The emotions can take you out of a game.

The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

Greatness for me is the ability to focus under pressure.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.