Mookie Betts Quotes

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

My mom was the organized enforcer. When someone crossed the line, mom was pretty clear-minded about how to... correct that error. But my dad led by his example, so we never wanted to do anything wrong that would, that would upset him or disturb him.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.