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Practice makes permanent.

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

I practice a lot.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.