Quotes About Discipline

Who enjoys practising handstands at seven in the morning? But that's how children were trained in the old days.

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

No, I'm not a student of Snake Eyes, but we trained in the same dojo.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.

I was trained by, at the time, the toughest man in the world. Not according to him, either. His name is 'Judo' Gene Lebell, and he trained Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris. He's the godfather of MMA.

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

I trained my butt off and competed and got to where I wanted to be from rigorous training and dieting.

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I trained together with Jacare for a long time.

I was trained by 'El Satanico' and Franco Colombo.

I trained in Provincetown, Mass. Back then, they didn't have all the tourists on Cape Cod. Very isolated. Very good spot. I called it the jail. All you could do was train, run, walk, talk boxing.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Javelin is a very technical sport. I rectified my faults over time. Then I trained under foreign coaches who further rectified my errors.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I've trained myself to write the first two or three hours I'm awake simply by doing it every day. If life stuff interferes with this sacred time, I get very cranky.

I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.