Finn Balor Quotes

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

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

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.

I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

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.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

I'm always open to suggestions. I'm open to opportunities. Whether I take them or not, I don't know. And I would only take them if I weren't training, if I didn't have a fight scheduled. I really want to keep my focus on fighting. That's where all these doors are opening up from anyways. I don't want to lose sight of that. I love fighting.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt.