Physical Discipline Quotes

Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.

When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.

I did aikido when I was four years old.

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.

Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.

I started doing karate when I was 11.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.