#practiced

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#charles #do you know #every #golf #good

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#always #education #family #grow #had

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#criticized #equally #hearing #practiced #seeing

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. ↗

— John Bolton

#bureaucracy #different #different things #done #government

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#because #get #i #like #lips

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#i #kick #kicks #man #once

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#had #i #never #opportunity #practice

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#best #coming #i #practiced #thought