Tony Vincent Quotes

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice