Quotes About Discipline

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

I myself am a former commando fighter.

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

I wanted to win every day, I wanted to show them every day that I was an NBA player - from shooting the ball in practice, to being there early or forming relationships - everything in my power I tried to do.

I'm not good at eating small meals. Some people can sit down and be very disciplined. When I sit down at a meal, I sort of eat everything I can reach. I know medical people say that's exactly the wrong formula, but I've made it this far.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

In the year 2013, I fought six times. I fought four times in two-and-a-half months.

I fought probably 23 or 24 times when I was over in China, in a year.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

That's how you get better on defense; not just 'oh, man, my guy beat me,' but you have to think about, 'okay, my man beat me, so I either have to pick up the next man, or I'm going to give somebody a foul.

I don't think I had one personal foul in my career. Now, that being said, no one can ever say I never brought it.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

A lot of guys think you're almost supposed to just get stuff but you've got to put in the work, you've got to lay the foundations.

Martial arts was founded on the spirit that it's not only a sport, but a way of life.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you've got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you're sitting there and thinking: 'what's in the press, what's in the fridge?'

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.

Even the most disciplined commander-in-chief misspeaks from time to time.