Quotes from Stephen Gostkowski

I love kicking off. Just like anyone else, after a while, you're like, 'Man, I don't want to practice this.' But I love kicking off and I want to try to do it as long as I physically can do it.

I just don't worry about any moment. I just worry about kicking well.

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.

Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.

I personally love kicking off. It gives me another chance to get on the field.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

I'm not really into reality shows. 'Nip Tuck' is my favorite TV show.

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.

I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.

The hardest thing about kicking field goals sometimes is you don't know when you're going to play. You don't know what situation you're going to be in. I remember in the Atlanta Super Bowl, it's two weeks of the biggest buildup of your life, and I didn't step on the field until there was two seconds left in the second quarter.

There's no time in the NFL, especially as a specialist, to pat yourself on the back. It's a week-to-week, game-to-game, kick-to-kick kind of job.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I have a lot of nicknames. In high school and growing up it was Beaver. In college it was Gotti.

If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per week. There is a lot of buildup for a little bit of work compared to the guys who play every down or play every day in baseball.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.

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.

I'm upset when I miss.

I'm upset when we lose. It doesn't matter if I make 10 60-yarders in one game if we lose.

You can miss a kick on a good hold and you can still make kicks with bad holds but the more the operation is perfect, the percentages go up and up.