Quotes About Self-control

Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

I've been trying to eat healthier, but sometimes it doesn't work out when you're sitting in front of the TV drinking wine, and you realize you really need ice cream to go along with it.

You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

I try to work out at the least 3 days a week, and I aim for 4 to 5 days a week. I try to eat healthy, but I'm not going to say I'm best the best at that. I won't allow myself to buy junk food, but if it's somewhere and it's free, I'll eat it.

I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.

I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make yourself eat right, work out and not touch the biscuits.

I've fought in front of thousands of people and never responded to the crowd. I got there, did my job, and left.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

I do have a very strong threshold for anger.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

I'm quite laid-back but some people say I'm unemotional. I don't get carried away with success and similarly I don't get depressed when something bad happens. I didn't take it personally when rival fans threw banana skins at me when I was playing for Liverpool. I can't control 50,000 idiots shouting at me, so why would it bother me?

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I'd be comfortable doing it but I'd still be true to myself. I wouldn't turn into a madman or start throwing teacups and screaming.

I operate from a place of like water on a duck's back. When things are thrown at me or said to me that aren't worth my time, they don't register with me. Like it just rolls off my back.

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

Sometimes you can get distracted by figures that are thrown out there and you're doing things you wouldn't normally try to do.

I'd been in my share of fights but never thrown the first punch, and I'm not quick to anger.

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.