Ben Hogan Quotes

So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

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

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

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

I spend countless hours each and every day after practice doing form shooting. You know, coming in on off days to shoot.

It's always great to get more reps.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.