Quotes About Discipline

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

If you want to write, keep cats.

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.