Quotes About Discipline

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

I think that every single person should play sports.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.