I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

I do not raise brats!

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

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

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.