Saquon Barkley Quotes

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Each day in practice, I try go perfect. I try to be perfect every turn, every stroke. That's the way I feel comfortable.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

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.

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

I'm getting better and better each year that I'm playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient - something that is key to our game.

You have to always work on your batting as you are never perfect. I am working on my batting every day and trying to perfect a few shots that will help me score all around the world.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.

Obviously, if I start bowling more, I will get better. To bowl more, I must be effective whenever I get to bowl - it doesn't matter if it is the 40th or the 100th over.

The small details are important if you want to be a good player.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.

You've got to focus on getting better at one thing at a time, every single drill, every single snap.

Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

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.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.