Buddy Rich Quotes

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.

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.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

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

A company gets better at the things it practices.

As a young player, you need a lot of playing time to evolve.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

Experience really does make you better, man.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade.

Every time you play more, you will improve.

Anytime that you're getting games in, you're going to get better.

Experience helps you do better in your work.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred Brendel took up the piano on a whim at 25 when he found accountancy unpleasant.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

I want to train with whoever is the best.