Joe Root Quotes

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

There was a rule for the under-13s at Middlesbrough that you were never allowed to swear. If you did, the manager had to take you off as punishment. But I couldn't stop myself. I'd just get frustrated, I guess.

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.

Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there's a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that's why it never happens out there.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

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.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren't going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I've gained that back.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Sometimes when you remember yourself in a big, big fight, and you remember being very emotional, you use words, and you react in a way that you take back some hours later.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

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 have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

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

There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.

I held so much in during the weeks prior to my fight with Ronda. I might have said or posted some things at the time that I now realize was not the right thing to do.

The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don't like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

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

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.