Larry Bird Quotes

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

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

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.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

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 a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

I'm going to continue to work on my shot every single day, and just try to improve that.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

The secret to my success is practice!

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Practice every time you get a chance.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

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

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

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

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

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.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I prepare every week like there's a chance I could play or just try to do the best I can.

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

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.