Jake Abel Quotes

I love playing football, and ultimately, that helped me get over my anxiety problems.

I enjoy working out because I struggle with anxiety, and exercise has been a great way for me to combat that.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you're walking in the workout truck, and when things aren't going well, you're walking in the therapy truck.

I take a breath when I have to.

I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.