Tracy McGrady Quotes

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

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

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

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

I work hard on my game.

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

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

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

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

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

Consistency is key in any sport and it's no different here.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

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

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.

When there's training, I will focus only on training.

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.

I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.