re: Porter to Memphis according to Joe Schad

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Yup, practice matters so much.

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A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. Pancho Segura

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. George Halas

Everything is practice. Pele

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. Grete Waitz

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. Don Hutson

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. Saadi I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me. Larry Bird

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train. Tracy Caulkins

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury

I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability. Carl Yastrzemski

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can. Ivan Lendl

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. Ignacy (Jan) Paderewski

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. Herschel Walker

In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game. Randall Cunningham

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra

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

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. Vic Braden

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. Althea Gibson

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. Pete Rose

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Keiland actually is a better pass blocker this season than Scott was for Goodness sake.

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it does matter

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Again, none of this matters. I wasn't using traits that players on the team have, I was speaking generally. You seem to care more about stats and flashiness and don't care about the less noticeable things that also play a massive role in a player's ability. I agree with you that KW should have gotten more carries. I agree with you that he was probably the best rb at points in his career even though that is subjective. Maybe you should re-read the thread. We were talking about porter's ability to coach running backs, especially the little things like blitz pick up. We came to a consensus that he was a great recruiter but an average at best coach. He possibly prevented the growth of the rbs and KW could have possibly been a beast with better coaching. KW had all the potential in the world but the little things probably kept him off the field (like it or not it is Mile's MO).

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...Tennessee wide receivers coach Frank Wilson...

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