Sami Zayn Quotes

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but if you don't have a job or any prospects, you're going to be depressed, and it will be much worse if you can't express that. I hate the term because it's become a buzzword, but it's toxic masculinity.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

You know, men are very tough and they don't want to ever say that they need a break or that they are in pain.

In today's society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you're not allowed to show weakness. That's just so false.

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

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

I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.

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

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.