Quotes About Discipline

Jones told them they wouldn't get to wear the new uniforms, wouldn't deserve to wear them, until they came in one morning playing faultlessly. In two months, he had them all considering serious life careers in music. Jones was that good.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

There is no great success without concentration: and no concentration in minds that have not been disciplined to long-continued, self-reliant thought.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils?

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

As I grew older and the dance became more competitive and more disciplined, that's when I started to realize that I'm an athlete.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

Once I started realizing I could lose people at the line of scrimmage, and essentially run a route on air. I figured that that was the way to go. So I just put a lot into that, and obviously I made it a big part of who I am as a football player.

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I just try to stay fit. That's important - just to try to stay physically fit so you can go out there and play. You do need to be in reasonable shape.

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.