Quotes About Practice

You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.

We need to just stay in the moment and stay in our routine.

I believe in routine.

If I miss 20 in a row and coach tells me to keep shooting, that's what I'm going to do.

There are some days on which we have smart running sessions, which I like. A smart run is to practice running between wickets, so we run the length of the pitch. But runs that are 35-40 minutes long, I find tough.

We need to work to keep from getting rusty.

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

I've just really always enjoyed coming into the gym. I don't know if it's the behavior of shooting, dribbling, the challenge of getting a whole team on the same page.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I do not see scales as abstract.

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

Over the years, I've discovered that lessons in cooking come in two forms. There are the lessons that you never fully learn; skills that you get better and better at, but never quite perfect. Then there are the lessons that you only need to learn once because the results of not following them will literally scar you for life.

When I played in Europe, wherever I played, players knew in advance about their schedule, when was the time to practice, to play and to rest.

When kids start playing basketball, they all think about scoring.

I keep up to scratch on the sax.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.