Quotes About Discipline

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I always think street but train sport.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.