Practice Improvement Quotes

I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

You get better by playing, honestly. That's where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.