They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.
Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Football players win football games.
Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.