Tom Douglas Quotes

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

I feel like when you're out there and getting reps up and getting a lot of time, then the game's starting to slow down a whole lot.

You practice how you play. I still believe that.

The more games I play, the better I get.

The confidence and the comfort level just comes with playing a lot and practicing. Obviously, the more you practice, the more you play, the more comfortable you get.

The more I get on the field, the more comfortable I am.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

The more you practice something, the more you are aware of what you're doing.

You're able to see situations over and over again and just become comfortable in different decision-making situations. I think that comes with experience.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

Practice makes perfect.