Zinedine Zidane Quotes

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

You have to practice until you die.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

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

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

When I decided to continue in the sport, I decided I would do whatever it takes to be the best figure skater I can be.

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.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

Sticking to it is the genius.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

The very essence of success is practice.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

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.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.