Quotes About Development

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.