Quotes About Discipline

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it's 9 at night. It's a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

All we have is our talent. That's what's great about the division, you can see things that 125-pound guys can do that some other guys can't. All we have is our skill.

Spending eight to ten hours every single day practicing the instrument, starting from an early age, makes an instrumentalist spend his/her lifetime to hone the skill, and perhaps just as much time is spent to find a job too.

The better the competition is, the more skilled guys are, the more fundamental you have to be.