Floyd Abrams Quotes

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Hitting's the hardest thing to do in sports.

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.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

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

Once you get older, you can always develop the skill to shoot.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

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

With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It's not like football, where there's a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you're talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don't retain muscle memory.

Practice makes permanent.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

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

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.

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

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

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

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