Quotes About Discipline

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.

Concentration may be my weak point.

If you are learning how to box, any type of support will make you weak. Any type of support is counterproductive.

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I do what I have to on the pitch.

What I have learnt from my time at Barcelona is the invisible work that goes on off the pitch. It's about the fine details.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

If I'm playing higher up the pitch, it's important I don't get carried away and start dropping too deep and I stay in my position.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

I know not to let myself get distracted and to concentrate on what happens on the pitch.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

I can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!

I don't go out to enjoy myself: I enjoy myself when I'm learning in training, but I don't enjoy the 90 minutes I spend out on the pitch during a game.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

There are times you need more than talent, and so you have to make sure you give your all and leave everything out there on the pitch.

I've had to make lots of sacrifices, particularly off the pitch.

The best players, they're always the last ones off the pitch, always working on this, working on that, and they put that into games.

Everything you do off the pitch always shows so you have to work on yourself physically as well, it's not just working on your touch.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.