Eugen Herrigel Quotes

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

For me, I've just got to go out there, not overthink things, just play within myself and just allow the game to come me.

I work hard on the precision of my long shots, but you can't plan it in games. Sometimes it all just opens up for you to give it a try.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

When you're out there and playing, things are going fast. You've just got to trust your instincts and what got you there.

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can't miss.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

I do a lot of things instinctively.

When I drive there is not much emotion in there. I'm just trying to get everything right and get every lap, every corner perfect.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos.

A lot of times, my best games are when I'm not even thinking.

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

Great games are played, not made.

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing.

I've got my speed, my precision. I have tools. I'm going to use them.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.