Sports & Teamwork: Training & Practice Quotes

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"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues, they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"Practice puts brains in your muscles"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me"

Larry Bird, Coach

"I think this is all my life. Because if I was split, gymnastics and something else, like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this you're supposed to one go, one straight road, and to do every day. And touch the wall of the goal"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"I overcame size with mechanics"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport"

Estella Warren, Model

"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: Where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"When I test, I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit, you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"Technique is everything, and we play a contact sport"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to-"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can"

Walter Johnson, Athlete

"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do"

Eric Williams, Historian

"We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"See the ball; hit the ball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video, I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines"

Rihanna, Musician

"I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac'"

Zac Efron, Actor

"I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical, you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two, which you have to be ready to fire or defend"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

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