Quotes About Improvement

Being able to work with specialist coaches in Twenty20 cricket, I think my bowling has gone up another level.

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

When I don't have a fight scheduled, training is even more fun. I can come into the gym and work on stuff that isn't generated for a specific game plan. I can just play around with it and have a good time. I never want to get to the point where I'm sick of it.

He is better than me in everything. I can only learn from Simone: he is a modern coach and seeing his Lazio side is a spectacle.

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.

You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

I have made a lot of progress, above all in speed, reflexes, and experience.

If you can get more team speed, I'm all for it.

It was when I first tried a go-kart in '96. I saw a go-kart race locally, and that got me excited about it, and I wanted to try one. When I got to try one, I just loved the speed and after that it became more about how to improve the lap time and all the details and that.

Every case is different, but what I want to do first and foremost at Southend is to get the players up to speed.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

To me, there's no question that using a metronome develops your speed and accuracy. If you're learning scales or you're jamming on parts that you can't quite pull off, it's a must.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

My team has helped me improve in many factors - speed, power, experience, the mental game; how I see the fight game is different.

If you look at any league, they're all trying to figure out how to make the game more exciting, speed the game up, whatever it may be. In our case, it's the same.

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

I'm always trying to improve whether by being more consistent, accurate, fitter or able to bowl longer spells.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.