Quotes About Technique

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

For me, David Silva is a fantastic player because his technique is incredible, and he understands when the right time to pass the ball is.

Submerging food in a bath of heated water - instead of subjecting it to the uneven heat of flames - means your food will never be overcooked.

Crispy-skinned fish is an elusive thing. As soon as your filet makes contact with a hot pan, it wants to curl up, which leads to uneven cooking and floppy skin.

I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Like, I don't do drills at all. I think that's why a lot of people who handle the basketball, I think mine looks different. You know, 'cause I've never done a drill. I've never done 'get to a chair and go through your legs,' or 'get to a spot and a cone and go through your legs or behind your back.'

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

When I shoot, I'm square with the rim.

Snooker isn't a sport where you can put on bulk muscle. It's about the cueing and the stamina.

I player my lower-lofted irons slightly higher-up in my stance. Not as much as variable-length, but a little further up can help golfers adapt to the lower-lofted irons.

The wrestling begins before you even engage in the clinch, I've said this already. This is one thing people don't know, wrestling begins on the feet with the stand up.

I've trained with some of the best when it comes to stand up.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

Practice them in 25-yard repeats, resting ten to fifteen seconds between.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

All efficient swimmers—which means nearly all the fast ones—seem to have a more instinctive sense of how to keep their bodies in the best position for slipping easily through the water, gliding as far as possible with the least possible effort.

70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water's drag on your body.

So goal one for anyone who wants to swim better and faster is a longer stroke. This can happen in two ways: (1) more push—using your hands and feet to thrust your body farther through the water by making each stroke as powerful as possible; and (2) less drag—shaping your body so it's more friction-free, allowing it to travel farther with the power each of your strokes is already producing.