Paula Creamer Quotes

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.

As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

I wish I were more disciplined.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.