Quotes About Athletics

My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.

All it takes to play baseball is a strong arm, good speed, and the coordination to hit the ball. That's it.

You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.

I've got good speed off the edge.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

I think that my size is an advantage, but also my speed.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.

Adrian Peterson has home-run speed.

I back my power, and I back my chin, and I back my speed.

I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.

It was incredible to play in the Premier League, somewhere I always wanted to go because of the speed and the pace of the game.

I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

If you can get more team speed, I'm all for it.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.

It's good to have different ways to break opponents down, and speed is a big part of my game.

There's only so much that you can control, especially when the game speed is super, super fast, and guys are flying at you, and you're trying to make a play and get rid of the ball.

The first 300 m., I go slow and pick up speed at the bend. That's Hima's style.

The more team speed you have, the better.