Declan Rice Quotes

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

Big games are usually about doing the simple things well - not trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

Each day in practice, I try go perfect. I try to be perfect every turn, every stroke. That's the way I feel comfortable.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

You come out every single day, and you want to be perfect. When I mean 'perfect,' not mean a 'perfect player,' but you want to try to go through practice without drops.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

I always try and be perfect in practice.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.