Michael Moschen Quotes

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

Consistency is key in any sport and it's no different here.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

I learned to do things the way the old-timers did.

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.

In football, there's always room for improvement.

My coaches have done a good job of tightening my skills, where I can dictate a little bit more where the fight is going.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

The better the competition is, the more skilled guys are, the more fundamental you have to be.

How you practice in nets matters a lot.

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

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.