Quotes About Discipline

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

My favorite part of any military feature, aside from the people themselves, is how clean and organized everything is. I like things clean and organized, and they don't get any cleaner or more organized than they are in any branch of the military.

I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.

You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

I hate missing practice and games, not being out here.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

At age 4 I started in gymnastics and used that as an outlet for my endless energy for several years.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.