Quotes About Discipline

I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.

Only thing that I'm guilty of is taking too many jump shots.

You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.

I try and run for at least 15 minutes daily or jump rope.

I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

I can do all my jumps in practice, three in a row, five out of five, four out of five.

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

I train with top guys like Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, I have trained with Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez, and nobody have ever dominated me.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.

I try not to eat junk, and I like to work out.

I just don't crave junk food.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

I stick to healthy meals and avoid junk food.

I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.

I don't eat any junk food.

You won't get my kind of body if you eat junk food.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

Back in the day, before I really started to work on defense, I would just take ground balls, whatever, a couple, and then I'd say, 'OK, now I'm going to go hit.' Now I spend just as much time on ground balls as I do on hitting.

I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.

To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.