Marina Abramovic Quotes

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.

I take about 12 weeks to get ready for a show. But I train all year round.

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

The secret to my success is practice!

Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, "I'm an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job." There's no "I'm just waiting for the inspiration." They just do their jobs. They say, "Let's go over the scene a few times and get it."

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

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