Evander Holyfield Quotes

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

I love to do kung fu - it gives me energy.

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

I use Kung Fu. That really helps my flexibility and coordination.

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

I'm not athletic.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.