Discipline Quote by Angie Thomas

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball…

— Frank Deford

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

— Rick Riordan

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

— Jason Reynolds

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

— Rick Riordan

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

— Stephen Curry

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.…

— Stephen Dunn

Basketball is not only played physically with skills and stuff.

— Jordan Clarkson

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

— Robert Stacy McCain

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

— Raymond E. Feist

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

— Pete Carril

Basketball is basketball.

— Oscar Robertson