Quotes About Discipline

Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be?

When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it's not my way.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Asian players have more in common with the Bundesliga than with Italian or Spanish leagues because they are wedded to the team cause, are hard-working and disciplined.

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

As a footballer, there is so much spare time.

I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I'm a dancer at heart.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

You can't cut no days, you can't cut no corners, because you will feel it in the gym, you'll feel it in the sparring.

I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.

When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it's sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That's not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.

Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do, and that's why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring, got the right training, the right diet, everything.

Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

I think the important thing is to lock into what you have to do each and every day, put everything you have into it, and then you let the results speak for themselves.

Speak to me about football; the rest doesn't interest me. The rest doesn't help me in my job.

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.