Zaza Pachulia Quotes

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

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.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

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.

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.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

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

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I control my anger.

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

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

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.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.