Mike Phelan Quotes

What's going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

Everybody handles pressure differently.

Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

It took me a long time to figure out how to deal with pressure.

If I'm in a pressurised situation, I've learned to breathe, chill myself out and be calm.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

My way of coping with the day to day news cycle, which can be a lot, following every undulation of the news, I think it's really psychologically harmful, so I check in, but I check in on a slower cycle. That's my way of controlling my emotional response to fairly dark times.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.