Quotes About Discipline

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

One thing was crystal clear to me: if you're centre-back, you first of all have to perform your task.

I'm very militant with my state of mind. I'm very task at hand and I don't let any interference ever enter my mind.

It was my task to train hard and respect my team-mates all the time I wasn't playing or was on the bench, so I hope I did that.

I'm a task master.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks.

Theater is structured. You're plugged into a system. It's relentless. You're expected to do certain things every day. You have your tasks.

When I'm working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.

Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

It's hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn't having to roll around and train all the time.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.