Top 48 Quotes About Practice Sports
#1. Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.
John Kessel
#2. Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
Seth Godin
#3. It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.
Craig Johnston
#4. Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#5. The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.
Daniel Goleman
#6. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.
Dom Starsia
#7. Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.
Zakk Wylde
#8. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.
John Kessel
#9. Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
Anita Desai
#10. I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.
Anderson Silva
#11. You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.
John Kessel
#12. Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
Anson Dorrance
#13. If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
Andre Agassi
#14. Concentration is born on the practice court ... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.
Martina Navratilova
#15. You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.
Grantland Rice
#16. I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.
Bear Bryant
#17. Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.
Roger Angell
#18. Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.
Summer Sanders
#21. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.
J.K. Rowling
#22. Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.
Rick Riordan
#23. Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.
Taraka Larson
#24. It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.
Summer Sanders
#25. Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger
#26. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
Vince Lombardi
#27. Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.
John Kessel
#28. Any physical practice can be a competitive sport. What level you can take postures to create the maximum challenge and show your maximum skill, maximum control - it's not a combat game. It's a benefit to you.
Rajashree Choudhury
#29. Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
Jade Jones
#30. Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
David Halberstam
#32. One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I'm present whether I'm present or not. It's not fair, but that's the system. What can I do about it?
Erin O'Riordan
#34. Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.
Anthony Liccione
#35. You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off ... you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#36. Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.
Pete Rose
#37. I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
Suresh Raina
#38. My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#39. To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.
Carol S. Dweck
#40. All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.
Soraya Jimenez
#41. Established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking,
Tom Brokaw
#42. If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#43. When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#44. It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.
Bill Sharman
#45. This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.
Carlos Condit
#46. The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.
Gerry DiNardo
#47. My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.
Larry Bird
#48. My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
Ashley Wagner
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