Quotes About Practice

It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.

Like everybody I needed to learn to be a coach, I needed to practise that and make mistakes in a decent environment where I could develop myself and not fear I was going to lose my job.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

It's one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.

Coaching is definitely different. I've got the knowledge but it's about communicating that to others in a manner they can understand. There's an art to that and the more you practise, the better you get.

Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger, after Federer, because he's a genius. He doesn't like that nickname.

I fell off the tour when I was younger and had to go back home and practise harder and get better.

Parents write to me, or come up to me after shows and ask me 'How can we get our children to be as excited as you obviously were as a child?' It's not necessarily what they want to hear when I say, 'Don't make them practise!'

As long as your eyes aren't going, or you've got some back or neck problems, then you can play this game as long as you're motivated to practise.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

In England, you don't really practise reverse-swing, and not everyone can do it.

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

I preach about getting the ball in the air.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

I know where confidence comes from: Work and preparation.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.