Eddie Alvarez Quotes

I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

I struggle with control.

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

I have some anger issues.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.