“I've got no choice but to (watch the standings). Every time I walk into the practice facility it's right there, so I know what's going on.”— Tim Duncan, successories.com
“A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, "Geez, does that guy look good!" And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.”— Ted Williams, en.wikiquote.org
“There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.”— Miyamoto Musashi, en.wikiquote.org
“With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.”— Edmund Hillary, telegraph.co.uk
“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuousl…”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“I don't want lessons, I want practice. I hope it is not pride that makes me so stiff against teaching, but a bad or indifferent teacher is worse than none.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“And everyone knows that what we say isn't always communicated properly. Like any form of art, it takes practice. But the more you practice seeing it from other people's points of view, the better you'll get at communication. And this doesn't just stop at verbal communication. With our paintings and…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Practice thinking about things from other points of view. If there are multiple people you're communicating with, like a boss and a client and a friend, you have to make sure that the message you intend on sending to all of them is the actual message that they're receiving. A lot of times we have to…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Let's try and answer that question: Am I talented enough? And really, it's a flawed questions, it's faulty. If not faulty, it's at least an unfinished question. My question to that question is, for what? Am I talented, for what?”— Jake Parker, youtube.com
“Fluid talent is what you're born with, all right? Channeled talent is what you've learned, what you've come to understand and gain.”— Jake Parker, youtube.com
“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com
“Life, Dad said, was a Hail Mary. You only got one shot at it, and if you didn't train every day -- with wind sprints and grass drills -- you would blow it.”— Noah Hawley, amazon.com
“Practice being naked in your house. Simply delay getting dressed by 5 minutes while putting on your makeup in the morning.”— Molly Napolitano, huffingtonpost.com
“Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.”— Motivational Quotes, twitter.com
“The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger, amazon.com
“The most important thing you’ve to keep in mind is that NO ONE is good the first time. Sex like everything else takes practice and you will get better with experience. So don’t worry about it and just enjoy your first time.”— Nirmalya Dutta, thehealthsite.com