Quotes About Routine

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

I have never thought of myself as a gym bunny, but I just couldn't get into working out at home.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

The public bus is how I got to school every day.

I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Instead of doing cardio before I lift, as I usually do, I might do it first, doing 35 to 45 minutes of lifting before I get on the elliptical. Suddenly, it feels fresh and new and different, and that can be enough to give me a new outlook and improved mindset.

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

I suffer from everyday life.

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.

I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.

I like a venti black coffee, no room for cream or sugar.

I drink coffee a lot before my games. I take it with cream and sugar.

I've been slightly hypoglycemic since I was a kid, so I have to make sure I eat in the morning and get my sugar.

I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.