Quotes About Discipline

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.

Maybe I lose my fights because I don't fight smart.

Very few people can reach 100 fights.

One hundred fights and I will stop.

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

When guys were going out to parties, I was going to the gym. I figured, for all my mom sacrificed for me, it was the least I could do.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

I have, compartmentalized in my head, one file for the NFL, one for college basketball and one for golf. They contain everything I've ever read, watched and learned.

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

I'm up at the crack of dawn. If I'm filming, then I'll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.

I've tried watching shows before while I'm filming and it doesn't go good because I binge-watch all night and then I wake up with like one hour of sleep on my filming day.

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

If I had to say how much I've paid in fines over my career, I'm sure it's over $500,000, going toward $1 million.

Just in any job, if you want to get ahead, take shorter lunch breaks, be happy to stay later, do the work, and finish it off well.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

Since finishing my professional dancing career, I've been conscious of not letting myself go.

I work on my finishing every day in training.