Quotes About Technique

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

It ain't just one guy, it's a team game, and I'll get myself better, I'll keep working on my technique and trying to find ways to free myself and keep making plays.

When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.

I have to be better maybe on the weak side of the offense, on closeouts.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

You have to try to move your feet and get to the pitch to hit the spinners away.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

Short pitchers often have compact, repeatable mechanics that can lead to good control and command.

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

I'm a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn't control my pitches the way I wanted to.

Pitching is both an art and a science.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

I created a little thing with my hands, just to create a more consistent plane to backspin balls, and obviously growing into your body helps. It's kind of complicated, more about starting the barrel flat and then creating a movement - flat to up, I guess - going towards the pitcher.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.