You Play How You Practice Quotes

#1. Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.

Alexander Kotov

#2. When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Vinessa Shaw

#3. I always practice as I intend to play.

Jack Nicklaus

#4. The moment Israel could look on a calf of gold, formed by their own hands, and call it a god, they were able to rise up and play and practice all manner of obscenities without reservation. The idol would not rebuke them; it was powerless to convict or to condemn their wanton ways.

James W. Knox

#5. 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

#6. I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Bobby Orr

#7. Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Larry Bird

#8. You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

Latrell Sprewell

#9. I probably play games more than I practice.

Kevin Durant

#10. I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

Derrick Rose

#11. I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Debbie Gibson

#12. The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

Bobby Orr

#13. I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Major Taylor

#14. The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play - a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#15. I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Tim Tebow

#16. Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Mike Krzyzewski

#17. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm

#18. To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

Rita Dove

#19. The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#20. My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

Vladimir Kramnik

#21. Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.

Lindsey Stirling

#22. Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Denzel Washington

#23. You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar ... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

Mark Hoppus

#25. I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.

Landon Donovan

#26. Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.

Wynton Marsalis

#27. Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.

Lou Campanelli

#28. I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

Peyton Manning

#29. When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

Zach Woods

#30. You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

Amy Alcott

#31. I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Larry Bird

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

Ivan Lendl