Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

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

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I want to be the best player I can be.

I really want to make myself a better player.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

I just want to become the best player I can be.

I can learn a lot from Messi. Watching how he does things will help me a lot in future.

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn't practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker.

My calculus teacher would send me home every weekend with 400 problems to solve. At the time, I felt it was so strict and demanding, but now I realize that the workload instilled in me a sense of discipline, and showed me that even if I wasn't inherently skilled at something, I could be, with enough dedication and practice.

I know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.

I try to work hard each and every day to become a better player.

I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.

You always want to hear from the best about how to be the best.

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.