Gennaro Gattuso Quotes

I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the team see me get technical fouls, it tends to trickle down to the team. I just took it and dealt with it.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

I don't get mad too much.

If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament.

I do have a lot of fire in me and could use some lessons on how to handle things more calmly.

I'm not a player that gets angry, especially not with coaches.

This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.

In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.