Quotes About Discipline

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.

That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.

You don't talk playoffs a few weeks before training camp.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

To make big runs you've got to bat plenty of time.

Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, some good old-fashioned wrestling and plenty of cardio. You name it, it's part of my routine.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

It's so exhausting in the pocket taking shots when you know I can go. I don't want to take that shot and maybe make a bigger play. To dedicate and discipline your mind that 'I have to find a way, that's the only way I can learn... ' That's the challenge.

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

There is no point in being lazy.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

I played clarinet for many years.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

I own 170 and 155. These are my weight classes.

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.