Quotes About Athletics

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.

The NCAA game, the first one that I was on, I was rated a 46 with 37 speed. It was a slap in the face. I knew deep down in my heart I was better than a 46.

My game is not always built off speed, it's just my craft to where I can run routes and get in-and-out of my breaks as a big guy keeps me at a consistent level for a long time.

Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

I believe my speed is my greatest advantage. My skill, my ring generalship... I could go on and on.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That's something you hear often. But I think there's more to it than just the speed of the players - there's also the speed with which you have to process information around you.

At one point, I didn't really consider myself as a puncher because it was more so that the speed created the knockouts. People were getting hit with punches they didn't see and they were going down.

You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play.

You never know if there is anyone faster than me, but I know my speed and most of the time I use it for good, but I don't know if there is anyone faster.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

With my speed and my hard-hit-ball percentage, there's no reason I shouldn't hit .300.

Speed is a luxury in my mind, quickness is a necessity.

I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.