Wayne Rooney Quotes

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.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

Have I been overly aggressive in some sparring sessions? Yes, I have. There's things, there's punches and things I've thrown that's been too aggressive and I've gotten to where I've had to tell myself, yeah, I shouldn't have done that, kind of thing.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

I always like to stay even-keeled and just play the game the right way.

The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people's or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.

I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.