Willard Wigan Quotes

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

Once you get older, you can always develop the skill to shoot.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

I am really not a speedcuber. My best time when I was practicing was about a minute. Usually people say if you can create a piano, you must be a good piano player, but it is not true. They are different type of human activities and need different capabilities.

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.