Quotes About Discipline

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

I think I have been able to slow down a little bit and really work on different things... I think I improved on being a leader on the court. Controlling the game, controlling the pace... that is where I have grown.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.

Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.

You won't get out of a slump if you don't shoot.

As a mother of four and a small business owner, I know it takes discipline and tough choices to balance a budget.

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.

If I'm gonna have a piece of pie, I'll have a couple bites, or I'll have a smaller piece. I'm not going to sit down and eat half a pie. I don't do that.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

I am going to develop some smarter habits.

Like a lot of people, I'm getting up there in age. Before I ate anything and everything. I just inhaled food. I enjoy eating, and I used to be the guy who works out just to eat. Now I'm much smarter about what I eat.

I've become smarter, more disciplined and more hungry.

I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.