Dawn Steel Quotes

I don't even like to cry in private.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

I struggle with control.

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.