Skill Retention Quotes

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I want to continue to grow, and as long as I keep going out there doing what I'm doing and don't fall off from what I've learned already as they keep adding things on, I'll be fine.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.

You know, playing football for me is just like riding a bike.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I've been aware of that; that's why I've stayed and haven't wanted to retire and come back - because you skip a beat.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

I'm so proud of my time in karate and what I achieved. It's part of me, so I don't want to leave it behind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.

Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"