Tom Daley Quotes

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.

As long as I'm playing week in week out, I'm going to become a better player.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

Swing has always been my strength, and I am also working hard on it.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

I'm going to continue to work on my shot every single day, and just try to improve that.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

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

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.