Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

Stephen Gostkowski

Profession : Football Player

Birth : January 28, 1984

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

Stephen Gostkowski

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just try to be humble. I don't like to talk about myself. I have no problem speaking up when I screw up, but if I'm doing good, people are going to notice. I don't need to talk about it.

Stephen Gostkowski

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

Stephen Gostkowski

All I really think about is, 'Don't try to kick the ball too hard,' because a lot of times when I missed kicks, it was because I tried to kill it. I just try to think of a smooth swing, being slow and under control, and making the kick.

Stephen Gostkowski

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

Stephen Gostkowski

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.

Stephen Gostkowski

There are a lot of reasons why guys can miss - it isn't always just black and white - but you just have to learn to move on from it. That's just the approach I take. I've missed plenty of kicks before.

Stephen Gostkowski

If I watch football, I just watch as a fan.

Stephen Gostkowski

Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it's going good it's really good. When it's bad, it's really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.

Stephen Gostkowski

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

Stephen Gostkowski

We play a game for a living.

Stephen Gostkowski

I'm so blessed to have a chance to play 15 years in one spot. I know my position is different than most. But even in my position, guys that have played it this long, have probably already been with two or three different teams.

Stephen Gostkowski

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

Stephen Gostkowski

The older you get, you might think you have it all figured out, but you are never too old to work on fundamentals. You can't take anything for granted in this business.

Stephen Gostkowski

I don't talk that much when I do well and I try to talk even less when I'm not doing well. All that really matters is the next game and helping us win.

Stephen Gostkowski

Win, lose or draw, I try to stick to the same program that is going to give me the most consistent results.

Stephen Gostkowski

I've said this before, any accomplishment that I make will be something that I will look back on when I'm done playing and be excited about and probably brag to my kids and grandkids about.

Stephen Gostkowski

I had a problem of not eating well when I was young. My parents always used to try to stress on me about eating well.

Stephen Gostkowski

There's multitudes of factors of why a kick can go in or not.

Stephen Gostkowski