"I've practiced that shot; I knew it was good when it left my hand," Lawal said.
Asked how many times he has practiced that shot, he said: "Never.
"I had practiced that way so much," she said, "I was more confident that way in the game".
Couvade was practiced; that is, the father stayed in the hut several days, mimicking labour, while relatives and friends provided essential needs.
He practiced, that is to say, a rather droopy kind of symbolism that could be adapted at will to betrothal, motherhood, first Communion and subtly adumbrated landscape.
"We've practiced that kind of finish a few hundred times now and it paid off at last," said Ian Burns, Oracle's navigator.
But you know you've practiced that shot to win.
"It's a place where people sometimes treat you differently based on how you practiced that day or how you answered a question in a meeting.
Also, the way in which this deeply introspective subjectivity was practiced, that is, in self-mastery, entailed a highly rational and radically methodical attitude towards one's inner self and the outer, objective world.
"We practiced that word several times because she kept getting it wrong," her mother told InsideNOVA.com.
Geoff practiced that approach and imparted it to me as well, and for that I am eternally grateful to him.
