Quotes About Self-control

Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

Building mental strength is about learning to regulate your thoughts, manage your emotions, and behave productively despite whatever circumstances you find yourself in.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

I constantly diet. People laugh when I arrive at rehearsal with my box of sliced beetroot and bag of chicory, but if I indulge in a cupcake binge or a large bowl of pasta, it shows.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don't want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.

I am not an aggressive person. I am a disciplined, chilled, and relaxed guy.

I assume people know how to hit the unfollow.

I don't like hitting people in the face.

I'm OK with hitting you, I'm OK with getting hit, I'm OK with cuts, broken leg, broken nose - I've broken my nose five, six times - but I don't need to verbally assault somebody. I don't need to say anything bad about somebody.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

When I play bad, I don't get too down on myself. When I play good, I don't get too hot.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.