Quotes About Emotion

When my heart rate is so high, I seem to be able to play even better, without making bad decisions. It almost switches the mind off, so that I can play more instinctive tennis.

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there's so much tension in 'Betrayal,' so much holding of breath and emotion, I can't get too happy in my food choices or I can't get alert enough.

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.