Mastery of Technique Quotes

For me, it's an easy way to make money. I'm just hitting a ball over a net. Of course, I've grown up with it. It's a part of me. It's all I really know how to do.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

I think you can never be a complete player.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

I know that I need to keep growing as a player.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.