Brad Marchand Quotes

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.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

You know how some people get worked up about things? That's a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don't know - like, I feel like I don't want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

We realize all the struggles we have and all the things that catch our attention and our hearts - if we're not ready for it, it will take control of us.

I just try to stay cool, calm and collected.

I can't let my frustration get the best of me.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.