Chuck Knox Quotes

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

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

Your game is only as good as your practice.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

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

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

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.

Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.

We practise, we know exactly what we must do and we win.

It is important that whenever you do get opportunities to practice, just get in some batting and be in a place where you feel if you get a chance to play, you can do well. It's important to be in that zone and be as practically ready as possible.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.

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.

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

We work hard in the offseason, we work hard to practice to win.

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

I was not born a cricketer to start with, so I had to really work hard; I had to really train hard. It took lots of practice and lots of matches to get there.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

It's different when you practice, obviously. That's why exhibition games are a chance to see what you're trying to do.

I expect to play well.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

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