Quotes About Discipline

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy... Martial arts are everything for me.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can't do anything because it's a habit for them and they can't stop. I don't want that for myself.

I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.

What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

I love the physicality of an offensive lineman.

I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.

Golf is about power and balance, and it's the same in fighting. If you have confidence in your physicality, you're going to be mentally strong.

This sport has given me so much. It has taught me to be strong emotionally and physically.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

Training camp for me is a day-by-day thing. It's a grind. If you lose focus on what you're trying to work on, you won't be there mentally, and it'll be tough physically.

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.