Mikel Arteta Quotes

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

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.

I've never missed weight once in my entire life or my career going from wrestling from eight years old through all my professional career. If I agree to do something, I'm doing it.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

What sucks the most is when you can't even keep a promise to yourself.

I don't want to let anyone down and I don't want to let myself down.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.

You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.