Jesse Livermore Quotes

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

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 used to be guilty of trying to get a wicket every ball, but I've learned the game is not that easy. That's come with experience.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

You just have to learn that you can't always go and win that ball and there are certain moments to do it.

To build experience, you have to play.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

With time, I am knowing my game better.

As you go along the way, you learn new things, but my basic game has remained the same. You learn about the mental aspect of the game as in how to disturb the flow of the bowlers. You get matured with experience.

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

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

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?

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.