Quotes About Skill

The Python was a double-action weapon, which meant the same trigger pull cocked the hammer and then dropped it, so he started early, getting the cylinder turning while the gun was still moving, seeing the hammer come up, feeling the cams and the levers, waiting, then firing, trusting millisecond timing and momentum and deflection and complex four-dimensional calculations.

Waiting is a skill like anything else." Jack Reacher

Waiting is a skill, just like everything else. ~Jack Reacher

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

Plique-à-jour, which means "windows of light," is one of the most stunning and difficult enameling techniques.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Over the hundreds of at bats he has each year, those random factors usually average out and result in some typical home run production that increases as the player becomes more skillful and then eventually decreases owing to the same process

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

He who can copy can do.

A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue

Practice must always be founded on sound theory.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.

Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.