Quotes About Discipline

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

I really feel like I'm improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

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

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

I love the sport of wrestling because it's a testament of your will and what you're capable of as a man.

I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.

In training, I'm always being tested. I believe that if I'm training well, I will fight well.

As a sportsman you are always testing your limits.

I get really aggravated if I don't train, if I don't let that testosterone out.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.