Graeme Souness Quotes

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

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.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

I am not a particularly aggressive person. That's not Erica.

I don't start fights, but sometimes I don't walk away from them. It hasn't happened in a long time, but it's happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.

I control my anger.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

I am physical, not aggressive. Well, aggressive with the ball, but I don't kick people.

Have I been overly aggressive in some sparring sessions? Yes, I have. There's things, there's punches and things I've thrown that's been too aggressive and I've gotten to where I've had to tell myself, yeah, I shouldn't have done that, kind of thing.

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!