John Higgins Quotes

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

As I get better competition, I guarantee that more finishes are gonna come, because I'll really get to use more of my skill, rather than me knowing that I'm so much better than the guy.

I'm getting more confident the more I play.

The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch.

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 can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.

If you work at something, you get better at it.

With every job you get more comfortable, you do better, you're more confident.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

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

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.

Games give you a chance to excel.

I don't think anything in my game has regressed in the last couple years. I think I've only gotten better. I keep wanting to assume more responsibility in all parts of the rink.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.