Forrest Griffin Quotes

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I control my anger.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

I don't want to be walking around angry and feeling rage.

It's easy to become angry, but when you get better, you channel your energy into the game.

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I have some anger issues.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.