J. J. Johnson Quotes

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

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.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

The secret to my success is practice!

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

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.