Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

The very essence of success is practice.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Practice every time you get a chance.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

You only get better by playing.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.

I'm just going to try to play as best as I can.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

First and foremost, I want to play well.

A lot of times, when you see someone do something, whether it's sports or multimedia or whatever their profession is, you think it just starts when you see them; you don't realize all of the sweat equity that goes into it.

The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great - all of those things have served me well.

I want to become a world-class player.

If you want to be one of the best players, everything is hard.

I've been playing very well for a number of years.