T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Discipline must be maintained.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Those who can, must obey.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

Those who fear men like laws.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

A rule is a rule.

I was just lucky to have a uniform.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

The rules are there for a reason.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.