Quotes About Mastery

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I don't play golf for money. I play golf to execute that shot, the beautiful shot that everybody adores. That's why I think we all play golf.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I always liked how David Beckham played - his set-plays and his dead balls.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

I just want to continue getting better and build as a player.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

Each player becomes the best in the world in their own time.

What's wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You've got Deion Sanders. You've got Bo Jackson. You've got Michael Jordan; he wasn't a very good baseball player. There's nothing wrong with crossing over.

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

Players playing with a lot of confidence can achieve great things.

You only get better by playing.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.