Quotes About Discipline

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

What's tough is being good every day.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.