Farhan Akhtar Quotes

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

If there is one rule I have, it is you have to remain level-headed.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

It is important to believe in yourself, but it is important to have sense, too.

I can't control what people say, but I can control what I do.

I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.

I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?

Being an 18 year-old football player, there are temptations. There are girls. There's going out to parties. There's doing this; there's doing that. There is drinking and blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day it all comes down to maturity and what you have to do as a man to reach that next level. You have to be disciplined and make sacrifices.

The competitor in me wants to play, but it's not my job to make that decision. That's what the coaches are paid for.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

Sometimes it's good to act responsibly.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.