skill maintenance Quotes

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

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.

Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I like to do enough work to keep myself sharp and relevant without trying to be trendy.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

I'm a shooter. You don't lose your shooting touch.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

Just to keep my mind sharp. When you have like one job, you want to think about it enough to do well, but you can't over think it. It's not rocket science. It's just trying to kick the ball through the uprights.

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.