Quotes About Self-control

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them.

I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.

If I fancy something I'll have it, but I also make sure I have plenty of veg.

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

After my Clay Guida fight, I went down a bad path, man. It was just not a good path. After my loss to B.J. Penn it just got worse. I got really out of control.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

I cry all the time, I just don't cry in front of other people. Only those closest to me, and even that's hard.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

Crisps, pies, pizzas, coke - I was a bit of a human dustbin. But my philosophy was: 'Ach, I'll burn it off at training.' And I did.

Those who can command themselves command others.

I have never chosen to comment on any piece of news about me.