Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

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

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

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

I was an angry kid, and boxing kept me out of trouble.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

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

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

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.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I control my anger.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.