Collin Sexton Quotes

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

Everyone knows with a rookie, you're going to take lumps. Even with a first-, second-, third-year guy, you're going to take lumps until you gain that experience. But for me, it was nice to get out there and get the experience and do it. I'm a guy that has to do it.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

To build experience, you have to play.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

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

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

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.

If someone is better than you at something, then it's likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it's likely because he hasn't been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I'm a student of the game, and any time you take more reps in a game, it's going to prepare you more.