Quotes About Discipline

I'm a professional athlete - one who's supposed to set examples - so whatever it is I put in my body, it's up to me to take responsibility for it, and I have done that.

I just have to make sure I maintain my professionalism.

I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That's something I try to do every time.

I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

I didn't know what off-season meant. I could sprint barefoot, anywhere, anytime and on any surface.

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

I've never had surgery. I don't drink. I don't go out. My shoulders, back, legs, hip, they're all fine. I think I bring a lot to a team.

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

It's hard to go from good to great. You go from one to seven by eliminating stupid things. Let's not have 12 penalties in a game. And you surprise some people. When you're a seven-win team, everyone sees you coming.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Sergeant Harper.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.

Sed quis custdiet ipss custds? (Juvenal Sat. 6.347–48:

Once the command is learned, stop giving him the praise. The dog must learn to do the command for the sake of the work. Watch a good worker bring in the duck, you will see that the doing is the reward. Save the praise for in front of the fireplace, when the work is over.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.