Quotes about practice

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.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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

— Seve Ballesteros

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

— Yogi Berra

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

— Larry Bird

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.

— Larry Bird

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

— Bonnie Blair

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.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Vic Braden

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Practice only makes for improvement.

— Les Brown

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.

— Tracy Caulkins

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

— Confucius

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.

— Randall Cunningham

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

— Althea Gibson

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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

— George Halas

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

— Don Hutson

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

— Jean Claude Killy

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

— Brian Klemmer

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

— Chuck Knox

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

— Ivan Lendl

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

— Eric Lindros

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

— Vince Lombardi

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.

— Richard Marcinko

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

— Sean O'Casey

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.

— Ignacy (Jan) Paderewski

Everything is practice.

— Pele

Practice is the best master.

— Latin Proverb

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

— Pete Rose

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

— Arthur Rubinstein

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

— Pancho Segura

None of us really pushes hard enough.

— Fran Tarkenton

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Voltaire

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.

— Grete Waitz

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

— Herschel Walker

You play the way you practice.

— Pop Warner

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.

— Carl Yastrzemski

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

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

My secret is practice

— David Beckham