John Kessel Quotes

If a guy's not executing very well, then obviously we haven't given him enough looks in practice.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

I learned a lot about the prep Monday through Wednesday with my coach.

I want to become a world-class player.

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

If you play a lot of games, you'll get your form back eventually.

For me to be a better player, I need to play more games, and having a gaffer I know has great trust in me gives me the confidence I need to help me improve my game.

I'm a player, or I'm a person who needs to practice a lot; otherwise, I don't play well.

I want to become the best player in the world.

I feel like I've been doing what I need to be doing to make me better at the game.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

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

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.