Quotes About Discipline

I always practice, even on the cat tracks or in those interstitial periods. My dad says, 'Even when you're just stopping, be sure to do it right, maintaining a good position, with counter-rotational force.' These are the kinds of things my dad says, and I'm like, 'Shut up.'

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

All right now. That's it!" the Irish priest snapped from the front of the church. "We'll have none of that grizzly shit in this holy house of my Lord. And you, badger, find a seat somewhere else." When Freddy didn't move, the tiger priest warned, "Don't make me tear that puny head from your shoulders, my good lad. Because we both know I will, now don't we?

This jail is not Burger King- you can't have it your way.

Don't give a reward for bad behavior.

Fantasies were like prisoners, less likely to stage a revolt if allowed judicious amounts of supervised exercise.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.