Quotes About Discipline

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

I stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, as I am a tee-totaller.

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I remember, I was doing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in London in the early '70s, and friends of mine had come over from Dublin, and they're knocking on the stage door after the show saying, 'Colm, come on, let's go for a drink.' I knew that if I went with them, I wouldn't be able to do my job the next day.

It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

An athlete is responsible whatever she takes - be it food supplement or whatever.

Going back to the '70s and '80s I was one of the athletes who believed in true sport. I never took medical supplements, believed in diet and exercising. I always represent clean athletes.

I've never eaten eggs or taken muscle building supplements. I eat less and work out more.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

I don't like going into a clean gym. A gym is supposed to stink.

I just show up and do what I'm supposed to do.

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.