Mike Rowe Quotes

Idling is not my strong suit.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

You have to stay very basic. You have to stay very focused. You have to stay very disciplined.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

We’re becoming an undisciplined people …

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

… good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.