Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

I do not raise brats!

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

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

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.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

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

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

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.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

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.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.