Quotes About Practice

We'd get right up and go straight to the beach for practice. Afterward, we'd leave on our wringing, dirty clothes and jump in the ocean. Then we'd leave them drying on the beach. That was our laundry break. Then, we'd play all afternoon.

During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.

It's always important to score even if it is not in an official game.

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.

Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.

As a basketball player, you want to play. There's only so much stuff I can go over doing one-on-one drills in practice and watching the team and watching film.

All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the 'keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.

I took up a few sessions online to learn to play flute.

There's only one way to train, and that's being in the ring. And even in practice, it's not the same as performing in front of a crowd.

The only time I would shoot from the outside was in practice, and then it was only when we were shooting for milkshakes. And as far as ball handling goes, I always said that when I dribbled, it was two bounces and a kick.

I like to pick out a certain part of each show I'm in and I watch it when I'm not onstage or in my dressing room. I'll go down to the stage and watch that part of the show each night.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.