Quotes About Technique

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.

I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

Georges is very good at what he does. He's got great wrestling. He's got some very, very quick, effective strikes.

I believe I'm a similar style to Khabib when it comes to the ground and stuff, but I believe I've got a whole 'nother, higher level of striking.

I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.

Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game.

A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

My striking is on a different level.