Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.

My game has been improving as I've been working. Little things are getting better. Which, I would hope so - it's all I do every day.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

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.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

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

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.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

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'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.