Quotes About Discipline

I played everything. I played volleyball, did track, cross-country, but basketball was my main sport, my main focus.

People think of beach volleyball as something you just play and have fun. They don't realize there's a lot of discipline involved in playing at this level.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

My shot selection has to be good to score big runs.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

I was very selfish when I was in the military - a very selfish man.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

There's no sentiment in football.

I enjoy what I do on the field. In fact, I need it. But I don't have a problem separating my on-field life from my off-field life.

The sergeant is the Army.

I remember coming second in a cross-country run and this sergeant major ripped in to me, saying 'you knacker, you waster - you should be second to no one.' That really got to me.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.