Quotes About Skill

At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it—when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill—the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

In the broadest sense, however, meditation is simply the ability to stop suffering in many of the usual ways, if only for a few moments at a time. How could that not be a skill worth cultivating?

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

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

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.

My best score is 103 but I've only been playing for fifteen years.

My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes.

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.