Quotes About Discipline

There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

Denard Robinson was my quarterback in high school. Never had his shoes tied. I don't see how you can play like that.

Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.

Our akhara was very basic. It was just a little opening next to where the animals were tied. We had to first dig the soil with our bare hands, make it loose, before we could begin our session. I used to hate it. It also used to be either too hot or too cold. There were no mats, no mattresses, nothing.

People don't remember that Sid Gillman was my coach. He was an old crotchety guy, but he was the first one to basically say, 'You can't just run around'... I remember, he literally tied my feet up.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

My dad was very strict. He was absolutely the Tiger Dad. You know, 'You got a 98% on this test? Why didn't you get 100?' That was normal life for my brothers and I.

When you're training every day, you kind of have to have the eye of the tiger. It's like eat, sleep, you've got to be like chewing on steel kind of thing for six weeks. It hardens your body, hardens your mind.

My dad was a commander in the U.S. Navy with three daughters - you can imagine the tight ship that was our family household!

I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

On a short program, you've got to be tight and you've got to make sure that you get all your points.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

You can never perfect nothing, really, so I need to tighten up my ballhandling, my shooting.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.