Practice Regimen Quotes

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

I'm definitely a reps guy. I'm definitely a mental guy, so when I'm out there and I get the opportunity to practice, it means the world to me.

When I won the first world title in 2011 I was practising six, seven or even more hours a day.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

That period in the late Eighties and early Nineties was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I had so many bad habits that my preparation was terrible: people like Steve Davis or Dennis Taylor were model pros.

Every player, they should sit down and have a meeting. They should agree, 'this is how we play Nadal, this is how we play Federer, this is how we play Djokovic.' Then, all try to play them the same way. The right way. First you have to play the right way, then you need to play well.

I'm becoming a more complete player where I believe I can compete more week in, week out, especially in major championships.

Each game helps me to continue improving, which is what I want. I want to improve in defense, on the ball, score more goals. I never want to get tired of improving.

If you have the quality, you can only improve as a young player through match practice. That seems obvious, and it's proven to be true in my case.

I'm kind of a feel player. I'll stretch out before a show a bit and do some playing, but that's about it. I'm not one of these 10-hour-a-day playing guys.

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.