Top 45 Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

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

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

You’re only as good as your opportunities in this game and you’re lucky to get some opportunities.

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.

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

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.

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.

I bleed blue. I love being a Tiger and love being back here in Memphis.

Sometimes things just pop up right in front of your face and you have to take advantage of it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We play a game for a living.

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.

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.

One thing I’ll never do is panic.

I’ve always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It’s sometimes stubborn to a fault.

I don’t live in the past.

When you play in New England you have cold weather, hot weather, windy weather, or snow.

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

As a field goal kicker you can’t make your own opportunities.

The thing about kicking is, it’s not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

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

I prefer New York style pizza.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

It doesn’t take much to be at the top or the bottom in a position such as mine.

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.

Once you get a couple good plays, you get confidence and it carries over.

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.

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.

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.

Most kickers and punters and snappers are pretty cordial with each other throughout the year.

There might not be kicking in the NFL by the time I get to 45.

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

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 try to treat every kick the same and I want to make every kick, let alone the kick at the end of the game.

You’re only as good as your last kick.