Quotes about practice
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You can't win any game unless you are ready to win.
Connie Mack
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
Bill Walsh
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
Bill Walsh
Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.
Anonymous
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