Craig Johnston Quotes

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

All I've done is work hard to get better and better every single year to become the best catcher I can be.

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

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

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

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

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

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

I didn't understand going to practice two hours early, going hard in practice, and then staying an extra hour after that. But once I started doing it, my game didn't feel right if I didn't do it.

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

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.

The hardest part is finding that time to actually develop your game and get in practice. Literally going week in and week out playing with what you've got a lot of the time.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

I want to train with whoever is the best.