Practice Required Quotes

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response - again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists.... It does take practice though.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.