Quotes About Practice

It's one thing trying it in training and another entirely on the pitch.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

My grandma used to pitch to me. Hit rocks with a broomstick.

I'll never forget this memory: I was at home, and suddenly my father came home with 10 footballs for me. I lived by a football pitch, so every day, I'd take the ball and practice shooting.

The best players, they're always the last ones off the pitch, always working on this, working on that, and they put that into games.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

When I went to my first practice, I really didn't know what to wear. The coach came up and introduced himself and said, 'What position do you want to play?' I said, 'I can pitch. I'll try pitching.' It kind of went from there.

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

We know that we can't make contact with the baseball with our front foot not firmly planted in the ground. So, in our cage drills we work on being on time and not rushing this action.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

The only way to condition for basketball is to actually play basketball.

It's second nature. You just get out there and play basketball.

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

You can't play football without having a good training pitch.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I play golf - badly.

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

They say some people are born with the ability to play golf. I wasn't.

I play golf but very badly.