Athletic Agility Quotes

I'm able to see things and react certain ways, I try to slither through there and try to make a play.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.

Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

I didn't know I was different athletically for a long time. I thought everyone did the sort of things that I can do.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

The way he was playing, he probably could have scored on Jesus.

I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].

I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

I love doing a lot of cardio. It's not so much for the way I look. It's for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Playing quarterback you have to have quick reactions. You've got to be able to know pretty much everything that's going on on the field, lateral quickness, lateral movements in the pocket.

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal.

When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

I love how I look. My favorite body part is my butt because that's where we get all our power from, and that's what keeps me going up and down the field and drives my explosiveness. I kind of have a bubble butt, but it helps me do what I need to do!