Quotes About Discipline

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

I would always ask Rob Pelinka what Kobe was doing to be who he was. How to get his game to the next level - how does he get that good?

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing you know, it can all be taken away from you just like that.

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I'm adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

I don't go to nightclubs or discoteque. That's not going to happen. I wear Zegna all the time. Outside of the court, I'm wearing Zegna. That's all I'm wearing.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

No fighter will ever get under my skin. There's no chance of that happening. I've been in this game for far too long to fall for that.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

There's no doubt about it, there are a lot of things I don't like about collegiate wrestling.

All bowlers depend on movement, and I am no exception.

It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.