Quotes About Discipline

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.

Blood, sweat, and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.

Success at anything will always come down to this; focus and effort, and we control both.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I've had hard coaches all my life.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.