Aggression Management Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.

I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

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

I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

Boxing definitely has a part to play in taking away unwanted aggression.

You can just fight one man at a time.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

The matches that I've been involved with as a referee, sometimes the heel likes to get up in my face a little bit and even at 65 years old, I don't put up with that crap. Most times or not, the poor guy gets chopped down a few times.

When you get hurt it's hard to judge when it's the right time to pull out of a fight.