Quotes About Discipline

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well.

For me, it was the Army or prison. I wanted to make something of myself. The Army gave me that determination, the will to win.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

You stay sharp. You go back into the gym. You work, put that work in, get that conditioning up, you lift. You pretty much know as a pro athlete what you need to do to get yourself back. But none of that, for me, means as much as playing.

I would like people to say that when they describe the type of player I am. Someone that prepares like a pro.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.