Andre Iguodala Quotes

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

Whenever I'm stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It's so peaceful.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

It can feel like such a hectic lifestyle. We are always busy and always under pressure. So giving myself that 10 minutes of meditation each day has really helped me to relax, restore some perspective, and gain that meditative state.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

There always needs to be some excitement and some peace and quiet - otherwise you'll have a heart attack.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

I don't put myself under pressure.

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I take a breath when I have to.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.