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I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is the same. The training is the same.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‘No. No, I’m finished. Bye.’ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Pace bowling is as much mental as it is physical.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.