Quotes About Discipline

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

At Burnley, I'd enjoy myself with my missus and friends, but because at Tottenham we're playing Saturday-Tuesday, even Wednesday-Sunday, and with the intensity we play at, playing in the Champions League, we can't afford to have a night out.

I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.

El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

I think a lot of guys make a mistake of training less as they get older. I think the older you get, the harder you have to train. Maybe you don't train as long, but the intensity goes up.

Show your intent and it's not about playing all your shots, like Fakhar Zaman, only Fakhar does that.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.

My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.

Ideally, it would be five days a week, spending at least an hour at the gym doing cardio three of those days and resistance training all of those days. My cardio is typically interval training.

Getting sassy, huh? That's naughty, Taylor. Very naughty. I might have to punish you for that.

She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most, so what else is there to do but drink?

And he left. What discipline. I guess that is what they mean by "character" on the East Coast: leaving summer behind.

Contrary to the belief of those outside it, the aristocratic upbringing of their generation was harsh and demanding of self discipline.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Ogni mattina con la precisione delle sei ruote alla stessa ora e allo stesso minuto, noi, milioni, ci alziamo come un essere solo. Alla stessa unica ora, milioni in uno cominciamo il lavoro e milioni in uno lo terminiamo [...].

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Learn young about hard work and manners — and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.