I personally suck as well - but this is one thing I have noticed with the 'good' players is that they are able to anticipate the ball movement and as such can 'control' the ball fairly well. It will take time as other have said to learn this. I will admit I think I am getting better than when I first started by paying more attention to the ball movement and trying to be more patient vs just hoping that I can hit the ball. Right now I am trying to focus more on ball capture and placement right now, once I have that figured out better I will move on to nudging and other such techniques.

Maybe one day I will become semi good - if not, hey I will still enjoy playing them and passing the time.