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Quotes About Footwork

I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
~ Vasyl Lomachenko
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.
~ Kyle Walker
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
~ Homer
Hassan N'Dam is a very good fighter, he's very experienced and been around a long time. He's got good footwork, very good movement.
~ Callum Smith
I'm athletic enough to do guard stuff, so if you were to mold me into having guard moves and footwork in a big's body, that's revolutionizing the game.
~ Willie Cauley-Stein
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
~ Johnny Weir
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
~ Earl Weaver
to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body.
~ Harvey Penick
I accept MMA, I appreciate MMA, I even get techniques from MMA, surprisingly, like footwork techniques and how I move. It's different and unorthodox to what boxers are normally used to.
~ Daniel Jacobs
I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I've found more angles to throw shots.
~ Conor McGregor
On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.
~ Kiki Bertens
Footwork isn't something you hear people talk about too much but it's something as fighters we have to be able to utilize.
~ Cub Swanson
Footwork is the foundation to my offensive game. Being able to move, pivot around and dribble better were the big things I wanted to add to my game, as well as stretching out my game so I can shoot away from the basket better.
~ Brittney Griner
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
We were pretty darn good - fit and ready to play - but today's level is different. Those ground strokes are ever so much faster, coming back at you at a pretty good speed. Footwork-wise, you've got to be ready to hit that next shot. It's a tough time.
~ Rod Laver
My left foot is not the strongest but I can be clever by going round somebody or using the right side of my foot.
~ Matt Doherty
I'm a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.
~ Luke Campbell
I just think that's the key to all of the quarterbacks throughout the league. You want to have a consistent drop, a consistent balance in the pocket so that you can really get everything into the throw, so that you are throwing with good velocity.
~ Matt LaFleur
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
~ Karel Reisz
the sidestep drill, which shallows the downswing plane during the transition. Initiating the downswing with the lower body gliding toward the target is the magic move of all good ball-strikers. When you sidestep toward the target with your left foot, you'll get a feel for what the lower body is supposed to do. The A Swing backswing is designed to make it easier for this magic move to take
~ Unknown
He trained every day with Eeluk and his bondsmen, and he knew that movement was the key to killing with swords. Any man could heave a blade around his head, but footwork separated a man from a master.
~ Conn Iggulden
I have improved both feet for my passing game as well as in the vertical play into attack, whether that be low balls or longer balls.
~ Jerome Boateng
Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass
~ Bill Self
relatively wide stance—about the width of my shoulders between my heels—and gradually narrow it as the clubs shorten and the swing force decreases, to probably only 6 inches with the wedge. I effect this narrowing simply by moving the right foot closer to the left. In that way I maintain a constant relationship of the ball to my left heel. As I narrow my stance, I also "open" it by setting my left foot
~ Jack Nicklaus