Quotes About Performance

When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Football is a game of speed and drama.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

Me being a shorter guy, I am pretty quick out of the blocks and can get up to top speed maybe a little faster than some guys.

I am up to the speed of the Premier League, and that was what I was looking for.

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.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

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.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

I know the way I play is with speed and ability.

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

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 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.