focused training Quotes

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.

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.

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.

I think when you train in just one sport separately, you learn more.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

I trained in Provincetown, Mass. Back then, they didn't have all the tourists on Cape Cod. Very isolated. Very good spot. I called it the jail. All you could do was train, run, walk, talk boxing.

I like to get on the court three hours before the game. That way, I can get out of everybody's way, and I can do what I need to do for me and get up the shots that I need and then be in the locker room and getting my stuff taken care of physically - if I need treatment or whatever may be.

When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

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

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

You have to put in the extra hours away from the tournament. There's no other option.

I didn't start boxing until I was 18 but I believe that is a big advantage now. If you start too young, it's easy to become distracted.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you don't date, you go to bed at a certain time, you eat certain ways, you practice 10-12 hours a day. And I mean, the difference between practicing three hours a day and practicing 12 hours a day is everything. And I certainly never - I never trained seriously after the age of 16.

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.

It's not about improving when you play; it's every day, in training, you have to work on every aspect of your game, and that's something I've really enjoyed.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.