Cheryl Tiegs Quotes

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Time flies when you're on an emotional roller coaster.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

You can have ups and downs, and I know that as good as anybody because I've had them.

Football is a game. And sometimes I think about it way too much over situations that could be, you know, deadly.

Luckily for me, people don't scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

I'm overemotional.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

I was not a happy teenager in the slightest.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I think the mixture of pressure and elation after winning the world title took some getting used to and that impacted on my personal life big-time.

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.