Lars von Trier Quotes

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

My coaches have done a good job of tightening my skills, where I can dictate a little bit more where the fight is going.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

I follow the roles.

I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

It's a complex sport; you're always learning.

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

With the cricket, I knew what I was doing - to a degree.

I practice as if I'm one of the starters.

Because of my style, I always make hard work of my contests.

If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.

I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down.

My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.

The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's a certain way to go about it.

Just play every play.

If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.