Motivational Quotes

Practice

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

- Walker, Herschel

Best Quotes about Practice

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Walker, Herschel

Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.

Klemmer, Brian

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

Bird, Larry

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.

Braden, Vic

Practice is the best master.

Proverb, Latin

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

Waitz, Grete

10.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

Halas, George

11.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Gibson, Althea

12.

The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Voltaire

13.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Lendl, Ivan

14.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Paderewski, Ignacy (Jan)

15.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Killy, Jean Claude

16.

Practice only makes for improvement.

Brown, Les

17.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me.

Bird, Larry

18.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

O'Casey, Sean

19.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

20.

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Ballesteros, Seve

21.

You play the way you practice.

Warner, Pop

22.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Rose, Pete

23.

None of us really pushes hard enough.

Tarkenton, Fran

24.

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.

Segura, Pancho

25.

We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life.

Marcinko, Richard

26.

My secret is practice

Beckham, David

27.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Berra, Yogi

28.

In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

Cunningham, Randall

29.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Lindros, Eric

31.

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

Caulkins, Tracy

32.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Knox, Chuck

33.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Blair, Bonnie

34.

I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability.

Yastrzemski, Carl

35.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Gretzky, Wayne

36.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

37.

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

Hutson, Don

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Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.