Mark McCormack Quotes

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I never raise my voice!