Eric Butterworth Quotes

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

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

The very essence of success is practice.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.

It takes more than talent to get to the top.

I think everyone talks about talent. It's really one of the most overused terms. It comes down to, do you play, and do you win? Talent is one factor, but certainly not the only one.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

Talent is long patience.

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

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.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.