Vijay Shankar Quotes

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

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

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

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.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Practice every time you get a chance.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.

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

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

I practice a lot.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.