A quick review of these practice quotes and sayings will give you a sense of how important practice is linked to achievement.
Practices are the most important things when it comes to succeeding in any field. While perhaps most closely associated with sports, it is hard to maintain consistent achievement in any field without regular practice. “Practice makes perfect” is an age-old dictum that you may have been hearing all your life. There is a reason why generations after generations have used this saying.
As an athlete, practice is one of the few things you control to help you excel at your sport. Your motivation, gear, nutrition, and all the professional and familial support are important, but it is a practice that contributes the most to your success. Here are some inspiring practice quotes and sayings to give you more reasons to increase your hours of practice. We encourage you to share these sayings with a friend or teammate who needs more inspiration.
Quotes on Practice
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice and then practice some more.
Pete Rose
There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory.
Unknown
PrACTice like a Champion.
Unknown
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Seve Ballesteros
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Seve Ballesteros
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
Larry Bird
Good Practice Quotes
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God.
Martha Graham
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan
Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
Brian Klemmer
You can’t hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Practice makes the master.
Patrick Rothfuss
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him… and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
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
It is the hours, the tenacity, the work, the hanging in and doing again and again just to understand some technique.
Daniela Andersen
Tip: Use these practice quotes on communications to your team, texts, photo captions, and more.
Practice Makes Perfect Quotes
Practice makes perfect.
Benjamin Franklin
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces imperfection.
Toba Beta
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
Winston Churchill
Never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever; if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it, I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It’s just like anything else; practice makes perfect.
James Lafferty
It is not that practice makes perfect, but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
David Richo
You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate yourself.
Tupac Shakur
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.
Bruce Lee
To sum up: it’s time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.
Daniel Coyle
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
Practice Quotes and Sayings
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
Don Hutson
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it’s a habit.
Brett Hoebel
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
Ann Voskamp
My secret is practice.
David Beckham
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Ray Bradbury
Practice only makes for improvement.
Les Brown
I put a lot of emphasis on the necessity of continuing to work, that good art practice is a product of practice, practice, practice.
Dianne Bersea
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Practice like a good musician; draw every day.
Sergei Bongart
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
In previous years I was so fired up at times, I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I’ve been doing in practice will carry over into the game.
Randall Cunningham
Hard Sayings about Practice
There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
Jimmy Johnson
You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.
Logan Mankins
But I still have to practice hard if I’m going to play my best tennis.
Anastasia Myskina
Practice the game the way you’re going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard, and above all else, hustle every moment you’re on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.
Pete Rose
Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.
John Kessel
Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
Zach Johnson
If you practice hard, you can win every battle.
Manny Pacquiao
Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.
Bo Bice
Inspirational Practice Quotes
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
I’m a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.
Tony Dorsett
Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won’t feel like your first.
Gina Greenlee
Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
Marianne Williamson
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Motivational Practice Quotes
It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.
Eric Lindros
Practice brings better results than prayer.
Amit Kalantri
The three P’s Practice, perseverance and patience are the qualities you will need in order to become the author of your own story.
Robin Roberts
Ardent interest, focused practice, and perseverance are pillars for the solid stone foundation of success.
Lee David Daniels
Practice Quotes from Celebrities
The more you write tunes, the better they will become.The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing.
Ed Sheeran
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
Michael Jordan
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories. He has written four books on youth sports.
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