Quotes About Discipline

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron.

It's tough at times to not play.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

Whether you're a batsman, bowler, or an all-rounder, fitness is tough if you follow your regimen religiously.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

A lot of people say two-a-days is the time to get them tough. It's over by then. You better not be getting tough in August. Our whole philosophy in August is to get ready for the first game. June and July are to get ready for August. Our whole goal in the middle of February is to develop toughness.

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.

I think being a WWE Diva is a tough job; there's lots we do that's not seen on television, constantly working and trying to better ourselves.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

You make yourself tougher in the offseason.

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.

My dad was the toughest man I've ever known in my life. He intimidated me. he was my Master Sergeant.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.