Andre Iguodala Quotes

I want to get better and better at my craft.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

I'm one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.

Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.

Practice is the path of mastery.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against