Amari Cooper Quotes

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Everything emanates from the basics, from your base. If you don't have a strong base, I'm sorry, but you are always going to be coming back to it, trying to reattain.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from...the more essential things that I was ignoring.

Even theories must have foundations.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way.

There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.