Prince Andrew Quotes

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

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

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.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.

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

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

I would be a very different person without karate.