Larry Holmes Quotes

I really work on my defense a lot; that's what makes me a good fighter.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

I just say to myself I'm going to be a better fighter day to day. That's my thing.

I like training alone. Otherwise, I find I get too dependent on someone else for motivation.

I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.

I love to fight. Keeping me at home without a fight is the same to offer candy to a kid and then take it away. That's why I'm always competing in other martial arts. That keeps me motivated to train and helps me learn even more.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.