Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

I practice a lot.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

For me, sometimes it's more important to perform well in training and know that I am improving rather than scoring in a game. It's doing the hard work, day in, day out.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

Put in the work in every day, put in the work in training, and it will show on the field.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

I work hard on my game.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

My game is getting better all the time. I'm consistently working hard, and I feel like I'm always doing the right things.

Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, 'I wish I could play well already - or just stop.' But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

If you want to grow as a player, it takes commitment.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

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

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.