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.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

I do not raise brats!

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.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

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?‘

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

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

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.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

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.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

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

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

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

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.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

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

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.

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

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.