Quotes About Skill

Master your craft, be nice and stay humble.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you don't.

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

I think the thing that I think about the most when I consider my father's philosophies is attaining that third stage of performance where you no longer have to think about what you're doing; you've worked long and hard enough to be able to have your body respond when you want it without your mind getting in the way.

I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.

I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

You can go on YouTube now and see young kids with massive technique. There's literally eight and nine year olds who can play amazingly. There's no limit to where you can take it.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.

That was my trick. I interned a lot.

I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.

Sometimes I'll even have a dream of the trick I want to do, and I'll land it perfectly. And then I know. I'm like, 'OK, I'm ready. I want to do this trick.' But it takes so much courage.

Yes, I can do the cherry stem trick. All girls in my high school could do it.

People think that jumping or do trick shot is gifted. Yes, it's gifted but is a lot of work. I won't say I work on the trick shot, but it's like I think physically I'm one of the best.