Self-Discipline Quotes
“Discipline is a part of the will. A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders. You teach discipline by doing it over and over, by repetition and rote, especially in a game like football where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do. So what you do is react almost instinctively, naturally. You have done it so many times, over and over and over again.”
—Vince Lombardi, NFL Super Bowl Champion Football Coach
“It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill‐defined in all of our language. My definition of the word is as follows: 1. Do what has to be done. 2. When it has to be done. 3. As well as it can be done. 4. Do it that way all the time.”
—Bob Knight, College Basketball's All-Time Winningest Coach and Hall-of-Famer
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. The key is discipline. Without it, there is no morale.”
—Tom Landry, NFL Football Coach
“I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But the one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.”
—Forrest Gregg, College & NFL Football Coach
“Why do I dominate the 400 meter hurdles? That's easy. Training. Just expertise. I know what I’m doing. I concentrate on this as much as I would engineering or physics or whatever I’d be doing. The discipline I had from engineering and physics got me through school and really stayed with me.”
—Edwin Moses, two time Olympic Champion
“If my players work hard every day, then they won’t have to worry about game plans, or where they play, or whom they play, or about rankings and so on. They have their daily behavior—their discipline—to fall back on.”
—Pete Carril, Princeton University Basketball Coach (Retired) and Hall-of-Famer
“There are four parts of self that lead to success. The first part is discipline, the second is concentration, the third is patience, and the fourth is faith.”
—George Foster, Former Major-League Baseball Player
“Discipline is a part of the will. A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders. You teach discipline by doing it over and over, by repetition and rote, especially in a game like football where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do. So what you do is react almost instinctively, naturally. You have done it so many times, over and over and over again.”
—Vince Lombardi, NFL Super Bowl Champion Football Coach
“It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill‐defined in all of our language. My definition of the word is as follows: 1. Do what has to be done. 2. When it has to be done. 3. As well as it can be done. 4. Do it that way all the time.”
—Bob Knight, College Basketball's All-Time Winningest Coach and Hall-of-Famer
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. The key is discipline. Without it, there is no morale.”
—Tom Landry, NFL Football Coach
“I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But the one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.”
—Forrest Gregg, College & NFL Football Coach
“Why do I dominate the 400 meter hurdles? That's easy. Training. Just expertise. I know what I’m doing. I concentrate on this as much as I would engineering or physics or whatever I’d be doing. The discipline I had from engineering and physics got me through school and really stayed with me.”
—Edwin Moses, two time Olympic Champion
“If my players work hard every day, then they won’t have to worry about game plans, or where they play, or whom they play, or about rankings and so on. They have their daily behavior—their discipline—to fall back on.”
—Pete Carril, Princeton University Basketball Coach (Retired) and Hall-of-Famer
“There are four parts of self that lead to success. The first part is discipline, the second is concentration, the third is patience, and the fourth is faith.”
—George Foster, Former Major-League Baseball Player
