Quotes About Discipline

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

I know I have a big future in front of me, so that's my main focus. So when I'm outside of the ring, I try to carry myself as a professional athlete, not just anybody.

With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

The reason why I'm so shredded at 135 is because I'm a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.

David Beckham, for me, every time he came to England camps he was an extremely professional football player.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I have never let my personal life and choices interfere with my professional life.

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Thibs is a guy that... just expects a certain level of professionalism, he expects you to do things the right way, be prepared and do things the right way on a day-to-day basis, and if you don't want to do that, then it's gonna be tough.

My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.