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Fear not Gonzalez's average

By Shawn Peters
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, August 7, 2009

You want improvement? If so, you need repetition. When a football player shows up for training camp, he goes out and throws or catches hundreds of balls a day, knowing that if every one of them makes him 1/1000th more efficient, they'll add up. The best musicians in the world, the ones who can play a piece of sheet music the first time they see it, practice their performance pieces over and over again. They understand that perfection, if it's attainable, will only come from that kind of total ...

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