Quotes About Speed

Speed helps a lot of things. It can cover up mistakes. I think with the evolution of the offense, with spreading things out more, the better you can run, the better you can be.

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

Colorado Springs is a very good place to train ahead of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our speed, which is very essential.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.

I usually sprint for 20 to 30 metres - occasionally 50 to 60 metres maximum. But no footballer ever sprints a complete 100 metres during a game.

There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

Even though I grew up racing short races and sprint car races, I really enjoy the long races. And if your car is good, you really enjoy it.

In the sprint cars, you have to be so aggressive for 30 or 40 laps.

You can have a great car in the Sprint Cup Series and run 15th with it. It's super competitive. These guys are just really good.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

Women's sprinting is something the sport should appreciate more.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I've always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

At Florida, I could outrun or out jump a lot of players. But everyone in this league runs either a 4.4 or 4.5 and can jump out of the stadium.

Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

It's crucial to possess both speed and stamina.