Gerald Dwyer Quotes

Why respect the rules of the system … if the system consistently generates crises?

I struggle with control.

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.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

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

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

The world is becoming much more volatile. We all have to learn to take a deep breath and count to 10.

Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.

When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

I control my anger.

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.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!