Jeff Nichols Quotes

I struggle with control.

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

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

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.

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.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

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 control my anger.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

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

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

You can't control yourself in a game while people are screaming at you, teammates, referees trying to get in the middle. So you end up doing things without thinking.

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

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

I react emotionally to everything!

I can't control my frustration.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

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.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.