H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

A lot of times, when you see someone do something, whether it's sports or multimedia or whatever their profession is, you think it just starts when you see them; you don't realize all of the sweat equity that goes into it.

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

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

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

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

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.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

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.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I practice a lot.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

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.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

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

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

You want to win everything you can in practice.

I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be done takes effort.