Quotes About Mastery

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

Learn licks and songs from records.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

If Lukaku is not as good as others with his first touch, then give him a ball that he can handle.

It's just about working on everything, perfecting everything, like my 3-point shot or ball handling.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.

Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.

I think I could be one of - if not the - greatest fight sports heavyweight of all-time. Not even just MMA, just the greatest combat sports heavyweight.

For me, it's the 5- to 7-yard cut with any club. I can choke down on it a little bit, hit it different heights, but that's the shot I'm always going to go to.