Luis Enrique Quotes

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

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

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

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.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

I control my anger.

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

I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

That has always been my character - on the pitch I have a strong temperament, but off the pitch I'm more serene, reflective. I manage to separate out those two things.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.