Quotes About Practice

I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a good thing.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

I used to lock myself in my room and memorize scenes from films and reenact them when I was alone.

I would sing every chance I got - in the car, before bed - I even remember memorizing my address to songs.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

I understand what it feels like to be tired in a game because I was tired in practice, and I understand what my body can go through and how I can push my body mentally and physically, and that's something I really relate to.

Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

When I mentioned that I miss the trainee days, I guess that's because back then we were in practice for over 14 hours a day, it was almost like school.

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

You can only gain the real intricacies of playing by playing. You can study the playbook all you want and you can ask as many questions, but until you're out there out of the field doing it, that's the only way is to mess it up, or do it right and cement and then learn from it.

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'

Michael Jordan was the greatest practice player I've ever seen.

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don't know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.

I started playing this game in the backyard, I started playing this game in middle school and going to go practice without any fans, without any sounds.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

I didn't like the way I shot the ball in Milwaukee, so I worked really hard on my shooting - threes off the move and off the catch. And also continued to work on my ball-handling and my in-between game - my runners and floaters.

Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.

There's no better way of getting yourself back into a rhythm and back into game shape than playing a game. You can't really mimic that in practice.

I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.