Quotes About Discipline

You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.

Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?

Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.

It isn't called dressage any more - it is called 'dancing horses.'

The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

It wasnt glitzy; I grew up riding horses, and I was at the barn every day, dirty, sunup to sundown. Thats what I thought I was going to do with my life: be a professional horseback rider.

My dad was in the army, I studied in army school and I am born in an army hospital.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.

You've got to bring your A-game when you're in the same household as a military guy.