Quotes About Discipline

I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.

I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'm not a disciplined person. I was indulging all the time.

I love working out, from kick boxing to Pilates I have done it all.

I do Kathak, Pilates. I run.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Well, having a pint is not going to stop you from winning a gold medal, but for me the question was 'is this going to help me win a gold medal?' if the answer was no, I'd cut it.

This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

It's on the pitch you have to do your talking, and it is the coach who makes the decisions, so the best I can do is show my best form.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I wander around online, but until I hit my daily word count, I only leave my desk to make some tea, eat, or to answer the door. At 7 P.M., I give up and spend the rest of the evening catching up with the news.