Deadmau5 Quotes

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'm good but not great at 'Madden'. I have friends that their whole life is based around this video game.

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much.

I think they're taking a little bit of the fun out of this pro game.

I've been playing this game since I was 5 years old, so I look forward to playing.

The hardest part is finding that time to actually develop your game and get in practice. Literally going week in and week out playing with what you've got a lot of the time.

I'm a normal guy who wants to play games, whether it be the first, the 95th or the 97th of my international career.

I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.

I don't practice very much anymore.

A lot of times, when you see someone do something, whether it's sports or multimedia or whatever their profession is, you think it just starts when you see them; you don't realize all of the sweat equity that goes into it.

People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.

People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well.

Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.

I want to play as many games as possible.

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.