Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

I often find out, once people have trained, you can never really re-train. When you get trained, you learn to lock up; you learn a wrist lock and, okay, onto the next thing, onto the next thing. You never really go back to the fundamentals.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

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

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.

You've got to do it in practice first.

They say with age your reflexes slow down. I've not felt it.