Bill Lee Quotes

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

I play football. It's about winning games. It's not about who can talk trash the most.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

I play football, not to only enjoy it - and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players - but I want to have the chance to win games.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.

This is the world you live in when you're a football player, an athlete. You want someone to discipline you. You want to have consistency. You want a guy that puts you in position so that you can have success.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

At the end of the day, the Army is a standards-based organization.

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.