Sketch anything and everything. Sketch what you enjoy sketching but also practice more difficult subjects too. Its not just practicing the actual skill of the pencil on the paper, but we also need to train our brain and eye to observe quickly and accurately and record this information. It will take many many sketch books before you end up with elegant, graceful, motion-full images.
Here are some links to some fun sketch exercises:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/20/4-silly-sketching-exercises-to-spark-your-creativity/
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa052003a.htm
I greatly admired a fellow artist who did a great deal of sketching with a ball point pen. It sounds counter-intuitive, but once I made the leap and started working with pen, it ended up improving my sketching abilities three fold. It forces you to work lighter and ease into your lines. You can no longer back track, so you are forced to observe your subject more accurately. And when you do make a mistake there's no going back to fix it. You just have to move on.
To get started, it might be easier to start from photos before trying to tackle a moving subject matter.
These days I draw in colored pencil or pencil if I have a choice.
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