If only you could hit a jumper or make a pancake block or spike a volleyball, then you'd be hitchin' a ride on the train to a good life. Of course, there's a minimal amount of work to do before you're in Tahiti sipping umbrella drinks. Just some standard obligations. First there's this thing called practice.
Coaches are kind of sticklers about it.
Most of 'em say that regular practice for three hours a day will improve your game. That's great if you're trying to win one of those team championships, but the athletes who get the glory are the ones who win scoring titles and homerun championships. Then, coaches have this way of weaseling in an hour or two of films or weight training after practice. Sometimes they might even throw in something called an individual workout. If you're a women's basketball player like Carrie Nance, you get to wake up before the sun to run and shoot and practice your defensive stance.