A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-PowellI don’t ever make moves under pressure.
Nipsey HussleThe way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe RuthNo evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.
Tom BradyMandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
BonoObstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur SchopenhauerHe who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao TzuBaseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Bob UeckerI’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.
Beyonce KnowlesThere are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark TwainNo one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
Muhammad AliI have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce MeyerTemptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. MenckenThe army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis PresleyThe deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiIt’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
Dwayne JohnsonYou must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
Robert GreeneKeeping score is for games, not friendships.
John C. MaxwellNever go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.
George BestIf you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
Tom BradyWhen you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYour teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.
LeBron JamesMen’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
Jocko WillinkNo man is free who is not master of himself.
EpictetusHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus AureliusEndorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.
Virat KohliTo all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron JamesWe must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim RohnWhen angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark TwainSometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle ObamaIt’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles DickensTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia WoolfReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!
Abby Lee MillerI’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe BryantIf you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Jordan PetersonHobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George EliotI try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.
Stephen CurryThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiI like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.
Sunil ChhetriI know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.
Stephen CurryThe most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia EarhartSonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad AliHe who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth KennyChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettAs a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.
Virat KohliIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James MadisonThat nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.
Jocko WillinkYou throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
Bob UeckerThe game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest HemingwayTo keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine HepburnIt’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark TwainHe best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. ForbesI can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar WildeIt is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal