Top 30 Footwork Quotes

I definitely get down on myself. I needed to work on my self-talk. The same way you do footwork drills and cardio training, I had to do self-talk training.

I have the skills to box and not get into a war. I’ve been getting punishment I shouldn’t be taking because, sometimes, I’m too brave for my own good. When I’ve got good footwork and movement, I should use them.

Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it’s footwork. I constantly work on it, and it’s a never-ending process.

The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It’s a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I’ll try to dictate the fight on my terms.

A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, ‘Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.’ It’s a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

And since my father started training me, he always explained to me how important footwork is and how strong your legs have to be.

I’m an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I’ve got good footwork.

At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can’t get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about ‘understanding’: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word ‘understanding.’

Once I got to college, I didn’t know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.

There’s a lot of things I can get better at as far as my footwork, being quicker, getting in and out of the hole, getting north and south.

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.

It’s true that I went to dance classes as a young boy, and it did improve my feet, but I don’t believe that it was solely dancing that helped my footwork.

Kobe Bryant was the reason I started playing basketball – always was and will be my favorite player of all time. I love the way he could get his shot off, his footwork down in the post, just his determination to be the best player.

I work out a lot, but it changes day to day. I always start out with some cardio – either a jog, a bike ride, or footwork drills designed specifically for tennis movement. Then I do weights, but I switch the days: one day it’s upper body, the next day it’s lower body. Then I do stomach and back pretty much every day.

Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it’s off, it will mess with your mechanics.

Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

I’m from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.

You’ve got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Even if I’m not a big guy, I have good footwork, I’m fast on the court, and I see the ball really early.

I’m a lot more comfortable in the ring. I’m comfortable catching punches, and defensively, I feel like I’ve improved a lot. I am banking on my athleticism. I’ve worked hard on my footwork.

I believe I’m better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

I’ve just tried to do everything I can personally to be the best quarterback I can be, whether it’s doing extra work for my rehab, extra work in the film room, on the board, extra work out on the field with my drops and footwork.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn’t great. I was definitely not quick.

You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that.

I’ve been working on my footwork a lot.