Quotes About Technique

Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it's exactly how you do portrait. You use pencil to make a 3D effect. Makeup is the same... You are able to create an illusion of perfection and balancing proportion.

Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

I'm actually a better passer out of the post than I am in pick-and-rolls.

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.

We are obsessed in England with the idea that we're not good enough at retaining the ball, and that our players treat it like a hot potato.

If you want to step up you mashed-potato game, regardless of whether you like them fluffy or creamy, a food mill or potato ricer is your best bet.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

If you're lacking hair in your brows, applying powder over a waxy pencil will make the color stick.

Lasith Malinga has been a great influence for me to bowl yorkers consistently.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.

I think baking's far easier than cooking, and because of that, it's more approachable.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

It's quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.