Chris Borland Quotes

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

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.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

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.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I take a breath when I have to.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.