Quotes About Discipline

I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want to get sidetracked.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

Swimming, it's the best job.

I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.

I was 8 when I started swimming training, but it wasn't until I was 10 when it became more serious so over the next few years I slowly developed a better understanding of my diet.

I usually work out around six times a week, but if I have the 'Swimsuit' issue, I'll work out seven times a week.

Swing at strikes. You've got to swing at strikes.

Sometimes I chase, but I'd rather swing at a close pitch than take it for strike three.

Every kicker that's in this league has kicked a million or so balls. You just have that swing; you know what you have to do, and you go out there and do it.

I'm still learning about my swing more. I continue to learn, with the help of my hitting instructors.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I think of three things, and that's it. Just keep it short and take it outside and swing it left.

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

I'm understanding how to use my swing and working in the cage every day to repeat what I'm doing. Just not trying to do too much.

Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

I know I have a good swing. It's a matter of repeating it.

Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.

I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.