Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Gostkowski
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Sometimes there are really severe conditions like super, super wind or crazy wind or something like that that you don't really get to practice for. But it's kind of you just show up and whatever you get in warm-ups, you kind of adjust to it and play as you go.
It's nice when other teams show interest in you and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, I would like to try to finish where I started.
You never want to leave points out on the field, especially in a game when you know it is going to be close.
I don't ever want to get too high or too low.
The more I get on the field, the more comfortable I am.
I'm not really into reality shows. 'Nip Tuck' is my favorite TV show.
There aren't many kickers that don't miss at all, so I just try to go out there and make a lot more than I miss.
Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.
There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.
There's only so much you can talk about football. Anytime you can get into a conversation that's not political, it's a welcome change.
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.
Sometimes things just pop up right in front of your face and you have to take advantage of it.
Once you get a couple good plays, you get confidence and it carries over.
I'm upset when we lose. It doesn't matter if I make 10 60-yarders in one game if we lose.
I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.
I personally love kicking off. It gives me another chance to get on the field.
The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.
Two to four classes each offseason - just trying to chip away. There are times when I think, 'Man, I don't need to be doing this. Why am I doing this to myself?' But to fight through that and come out and make a good grade, it feels worth it. Hopefully something good comes out of it one day.
In New England we get awful weather and it's cold. You definitely appreciate the times where you aren't freezing your butt off, because we are always outside practicing and playing. It's nice to not have to bundle up to play.
I bleed blue. I love being a Tiger and love being back here in Memphis.
You're only as good as your last kick.
No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.
You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.
My curveball is a C-.
I'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.
I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.
The way the field feels like before the game isn't like what the field is during the game.
There might not be kicking in the NFL by the time I get to 45.
Kicking is a weird thing. You can go stretches and stretches of just doing really good, then you could have one or two kicks that can derail you. You've just got to learn to ride the wave.
You're one kick away from being Public Enemy No. 1. You're always one kick away from trending on Twitter as the No. 1 loser in America.
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.
It doesn't take much to be at the top or the bottom in a position such as mine.
A lot of times guys have the tendency to try to kick it too hard or over-kick it. Just like a golf swing, the harder you try to hit it the less chance you have at it going straight.
To have faith and confidence in someone in front of you just helps you attack the ball a lot better.
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 try to treat every kick the same and I want to make every kick, let alone the kick at the end of the game.
It's my job to be able to deal with adverse conditions as well as kick well in good conditions. I just look to prepare to go out to do well no matter what it is.
Most kickers and punters and snappers are pretty cordial with each other throughout the year.
As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.
I really enjoy charity work and helping people.
It stinks to play terrible and your team loses. It's like salt on the wound.
One thing I'll never do is panic.
I just don't worry about any moment. I just worry about kicking well.
I prefer New York style pizza.
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.
Any time your team has confidence in you, it's cool, but I don't go back. I haven't watched one Super Bowl that we've played in.
To take an hour or two per day while the kids are in school to read really isn't that tough to do once you get into the routine of it.
When you play in New England you have cold weather, hot weather, windy weather, or snow.
The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.
Every year means different challenges, different opportunities.
As a field goal kicker you can't make your own opportunities.
We all know someone who has been affected by cancer.
It's always nice to get off to a good start, but one game is one game, you know. Good or bad, you have to turn the page.
You're only as good as your opportunities in this game and you're lucky to get some opportunities.
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.
Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.
I'm upset when I miss.
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.
In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.
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