A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.
Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
Everything is practice.
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.
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
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.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
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.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.