Tim Kennedy Quotes

I never take fights personal and I'm not emotional when I'm fighting.

What I've learned, being in this league, is you can't take things personally.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I've learned that showing your emotions can work against you and that you need to have a business-like attitude to observe things with a cool head.

You can't get emotional about your work.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement.

Emotion works against you. The less emotion, the more you use your brain and fight smart.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

I'm an emotional fighter.

There are always going to be distractions, push and shove between players. It's about rolling with the punches and enjoying every situation, good or bad.