Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

Stephen Gostkowski

Profession : Football Player

Birth : January 28, 1984

I admire every kicker in the NFL. I know how hard it is to be successful on a week-in-week-out basis.

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I'll try to play as long as I can stay healthy.

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If you do well and play well, good things will happen.

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When you're on a good team, you just want to do your part and know that they trust you.

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If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there's a lot of parallels in that.

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The thing that kept me from going to the next level was, I really didn't have an out-pitch. My story in baseball could have been a lot different if that's all I focused on.

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There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

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Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

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I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

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I've always been able to move on and contain. I get mad, I get frustrated. No one gets more upset when they miss a kick than I do. But I have to be able to get over it for the sake of the team and my own job.

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Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

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I don't do social media. I'm not looking to get a death threat every time I miss a field goal. I'm just not going to put myself through that.

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There was a time where I was such a perfectionist even if I made the kick, but that's no way to live. I can tell you what, that will drive you crazy. I'm very hard on myself, but if the ball goes in a little bit left of the middle, you're not going to hear me crying about it.

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Just to keep my mind sharp. When you have like one job, you want to think about it enough to do well, but you can't over think it. It's not rocket science. It's just trying to kick the ball through the uprights.

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It's a high-pressure situation to be in my position, but I've kind of gravitated toward those positions in sports. It's nothing that I worry too much about. I'm not going to act like I have the most stressful job in the world. This is pretty darn fun.

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When you're in a slump you want to try something else and you get on a roll.

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I think my experience playing multiple sports kind of helps deal with a little bit of a bind.

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In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.

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Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

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I think a pitcher in baseball is the most relatable position to a specialist in football, because you get a limited opportunity to prove your worth to the team.

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