Steven Gerrard Quotes

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It's crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I'm sure it's not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that's basically what I did.

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

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.

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

I've had to find my sanity.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

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.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.