Words matter. These are the best Quickness Quotes from famous people such as Merlin Olsen, Michael Chang, Floyd Skloot, Henry Chadwick, Frank Deford, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
I used to be able to think. My brain’s circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you’ll distill from them is quickness and momentum.
There are certainly guys that can get by without it. Guys that have great catch radius and are able to make contested catches consistently. There’s certainly ways around that. But quickness is something that I’ve tried to develop as early as I can remember.
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.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Basketball’s all about speed and quickness.
Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.
He could rush the passer, he could bull you, he could beat you speed inside and quickness. Those are long days when you had Michael Strahan lining up right over your head for 60 minutes, because most defensive ends are good at one or the other. Michael was really good at both.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at – in our past, at least – is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I’m not very tall, so I rely on quickness.
We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Off the field, all my training is speed and quickness. The agility work, the cones, training with my track coach and keeping my speed.
White dude speed’ is the kind of quickness that you see from a guy who’s trying to beat the ‘Do Not Walk’ sign across the street. They’re moving but not fast enough to scuff their boat shoes.
There are different types of cornerbacks: you’ve got your longer guys that will try to get physical with you and use their length, and you’ve got your quick guys that will try to use their quickness, and then you’ve got your ‘tweener’ guys that will try to use both.
It is said that Obama speaks ‘professorially,’ a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
Speed is a luxury in my mind, quickness is a necessity.
I’m quick enough to hang with guards and big enough post them up, then when they stick a big man on me, I’m able to use my quickness to go around them.
For me, from day one, I don’t think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn’t have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.
Quickness is the essence of the war.
You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker – quickness, tackling ability and sheer force – so you just can’t take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
I couldn’t have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
A guy like Saquon Barkley is really a three-down player. You see the size, the speed, the quickness, the elusiveness, the power. He’s a unique individual.
I’m a big proponent of playing all sports when you’re growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint to a movement standpoint. Certainty with tennis, you get the lateral quickness more than anything.
There’s a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it’s all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.
