Mousa Dembele Quotes

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

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

I have to keep working hard and improving every day.

I didn't understand going to practice two hours early, going hard in practice, and then staying an extra hour after that. But once I started doing it, my game didn't feel right if I didn't do it.

At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don't want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.

I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.

Every little thing you do is going to add up and be the difference and contribute to your success. If you believe in that, it's going to make you want to get 1 percent better every day. Do that extra one rep in the weight room. Do that extra mental rep at practice. Stay a little longer because it's going to add up and be the difference.

I honestly think the reason I've been able to improve year by year is work. Work with the team, work with my ability, focus on all the single details.

I try to improve every day so that things go well. You must keep training strongly every day.

All I do is work hard. Try and work on my bowling and keep improving every day. That's the key to success at the international level and in tournaments like the IPL.

When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

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.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.

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

I practice a lot.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.