Inspirations

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

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

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 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 Junior

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.

- Saadi

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

- Pancho Segura

None of us really pushes hard enough.

- Fran Tarkenton

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.