Derek Carr Quotes

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

With time, I am knowing my game better.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

I've gotten better every year. I'm only going to continue to get better and better, and I'm just scratching the surface. I'm 25 years old, and I've been hooping at a high level for a long time.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

I always enjoy playing against great players. You can learn from the best.

The reason I wanted to do 'Strictly' in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

It's a fast learning process if you want to be successful at the highest level.

As you get stronger, you learn to maintain the position against higher rated players. This comes with experience.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

I can learn a lot from Messi. Watching how he does things will help me a lot in future.

A lot of guys are just as fast, just as strong, or just as big as me. But they're not going to be able to think the way I do on the field.

The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

There are always different areas in the game you want to develop. For me it's my all-round game in different conditions in different places in the world.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.