C. J. McCollum Quotes

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

I don't even like to cry in private.

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

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

I don't really cry.

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

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

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.

At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I don't cry often.

Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do.

Always when you play badly or commit errors, you hope to play another game to put it behind you, to show that you are capable and that you deserve to be playing for an important team like City.

Just because it is Christmas doesn't mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up.