Walter Hagen Quotes

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

You keep learning all the time.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.

If I can figure out this wedge stuff and become a really good wedger, I'll be the number-one player in the world.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

Practice is the path of mastery.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

Practice makes the master.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

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.

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).