Quotes About Discipline

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.

I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers or adults.

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

I think fitness and doing gym should be like brushing teeth everyday in the morning as it should come automatically without any excuse.

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

Dancing should be as much a part of our daily routine as brushing our teeth.

I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

My regimen is I wake up, usually around 8:30, brush my teeth, and splash water on my face.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

If you brush your teeth, you don't want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later.

I put working out on my calendar as if it were a part of my job. It makes exercise as important a priority as brushing my teeth - something I need to do every day.