Quotes About Discipline

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

I've been working on my power, obviously I do my strength work, I'm learning the technical things as well.

Neurosurgery is a new challenge with each case. The preparation, the discipline, the technical skills and the need to perform at your very best under pressure provide the same adrenaline rush I had in football.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.

Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.

I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.

Lionel Messi, I never saw him in the gym. I've never seen him train in the stops or do technical exercises.

I have that brawler's mentality, and I can get into that realm, but when I'm at my best is when I'm patient, precise, and technical.

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

I know I'm the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.

All kids have the dream of becoming a professional soccer player, but to become that you need so many things. You have to have talent, be hard working, have support, have discipline. You also have to have ability, physical and technical, and understand the game.

You can see a lot of technical fouls, ejections but at the same time, it's a man's sport.

A lot of people think track, you just run, that's all you do. No. There's a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you're going to get embarrassed every time.

Wrestling is a very technical sport. For example, there are 100 different ways to grab a leg.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I think it is more important to adjust mentally than technically. What happens at No 3 is that you have to be very careful with your shot selection than at No 5.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.