Carl Froch Quotes

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I try to handle myself with dignity.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.