John Amos Comenius Quotes

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

Learn by practice.

I'm a student of the game, and any time you take more reps in a game, it's going to prepare you more.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

There is nothing like practice.

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Learning Before Earning

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

I learned a lot about the prep Monday through Wednesday with my coach.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

Brazil was a very good experience. I learned a lot about how to play football, both technical and physical. There would be a hundred kids of all ages, training and doing classes together.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

By playing, you learn.

To build experience, you have to play.

Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.