Quotes About Technique

I'm a fan of judo, so I always try to watch competitions like the European championship.

My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.

I really want to get better at conducting.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.

Pull and sweep are two shots which can help me score runs outside India. These are two shots that can immediately put pressure back on bowlers.

Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you're playing a chord, and that's exactly what you don't want.

So whenever Marnus Labuschagne steps out, he hits the ball over cow corner for an offspinner, or he hits it over mid-off. It's very rare through long-on. And he doesn't have a flat sweep, he has a lap sweep, like a paddle.

My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's why I'm not very good at that sort of super-fast, shreddy sweeping. So I've never considered myself a traditionally good, fast-playing guitarist.

When I got into songs like 'Exist,' I was like, 'Okay, this riff has some bass sweeping in it, I'm definitely going to have to use a pick... but I guess I'll have to learn how to sweep first!'

Copy my favorite moves and my Tour-proven setup positions, and you'll start catching it on the sweet spot every time, with every club in your bag.

If you fight improperly, you can be in great shape, run marathons, swim 200 meters and I can still gas you in two minutes of a fight. If you don't know how to fight, it doesn't matter.

It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

We want to swing the ball as much as we can. We try and get it to reverse, putting more sweat on one side and things like that. But we don't cheat.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.

My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.