Frustration Outlet Quotes

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary of a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

My mood depends on how I treat my toothbrushes. Being a skipper is a strenuous job, and when you are going through a rough phase, obviously you start taking out your frustration. You can't take it out on anyone: you can't take it out on your teammates or your wife. The only person that is left is your toothbrush.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.