Quotes About Technique

Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

Proclus was known to repeat the metaphor that statues are carved by subtraction.. Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David, his answer as: It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.

Bülow drew danger to himself by the excessive use of technique; he behaved like a spy because he enjoyed the trappings of conspiracy. He had been making the same furtive mistakes for such a long time that he believed they had preserved his life. No one else doubted that sooner or later they would kill him.

Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball, adjusting to the location and speed, and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time.

In fact, I have reached the point where I don't see the value of switch-hitting at all.

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

My goal is to make wrestling more like mixed martial arts.

Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.

In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to four batsmen has become very crucial.

I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

THERE IS NO such thing as magic. That was merely the word people used to explain something so cleverly done that there was no ready explanation for it, and the simplest technique employed by its practitioners was to distract the audience with one moving and obvious hand (usually in a white glove) while the other was doing something else.

The argument is irrelevant, for at the higher levels, science and art are the same. There is a point where high science transcends the technologic and enters the poetic, there is a point where high art transcends technique and enters the poetic.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.

When asked about his photographic techniques, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, a photojournalist from the 30s and 40s, answered, "f/8 and be there.

Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal--a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.