Quotes About Practice

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

I just wanted to play and play and play. When everyone left, I'd stay on the court and hit serves or play against the wall.

I think it's always good to learn on the court instead of being on the bench.

I don't train to be on the bench.

As a young player the most important thing besides having a very good coach is to play a lot because you improve that way.

So I think, for me, playing matches - actually being in real matches - is the best way to get myself playing the best tennis.

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.

When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

The biggest challenge for everyone is getting back into game speed.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

You know, playing football for me is just like riding a bike.

You're never going to lose your sport. It's like riding a bike to be honest.

I didn't want anyone to teach me how to hit a forehand or hit 600 backhands. I don't need that. I've hit a billion in my lifetime.

The only thing I do for everything is read the script a billion times, back to front, every single bit.

I shoot all kinds of shots. I just don't stay on the block and do layups and dunks when I'm in the gym by myself.

I feel like, I go out and play hard every day and I'm going to practice every day, I'm going to block shots.