Quotes About Technique

For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.

Well, I've always prefered playing spin off the back foot because, to my mind, it takes short leg and silly point out of the equation.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

You make a 2-10 split pretty often when you bowl as much as I do.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That's all I've ever used in my paintings.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

Although I do a lot of aerial moves, I use many strong style moves.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

I only got about four moves.

Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

A lot of these defensive linemen, they're real whirling dervishes - they do all these fancy moves.

I can go any style - hook up, lock up, take you down - and do all kinds of amateur moves.

For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But it's always been an effective move in our league.

I'm a big fan of the calf slicer, some moves that aren't always done inside the octagon.

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.