David Alaba Quotes

I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

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

I can learn a lot from Messi. Watching how he does things will help me a lot in future.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

If you keep doing something over and over, you should get good at it.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

Every time you play more, you will improve.

The more you practice something, the easier it'll become.

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.

I watch something in the gym, try to do it and may not get it. When I go home that night and my wife is talking to me and I'm not answering her, it is because I'm visualizing that thing I'm working on. I'll do that all day long. Before I go to bed I'm still thinking about it, and that happens until I can see myself doing it.

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

I feel, if keep hitting the same shot, I get better at it.

The only way you're going to improve is playing games and learning, being a regular week on week.

I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

The more games I play, the better I get.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

We have to practice to become perfect.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.