Diego Forlan Quotes

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.

I always wanted to play with both feet, so today I'm happy I trained it so often.

I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

You can always get better with your ballhandling.

I'm two-footed. I prefer to dribble with the left and shoot with the right.

I began to play with both feet very early. So it is normal that I can play well with each of them.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

When I play, I play with my feet and with my head also.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

I love doing my fitness drills and work on my skill level.

I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer. As a defender, I had to learn to stay on my feet, track backwards, and I feel all the movement I do in the ring was helped by my soccer background.

I feel I can continue to grow as a player. I have a long time to continue to progress with my shooting, continue to keep my ball handling tight, continue to stay in shape. You know, all of it.

I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

I played basketball my whole life. It definitely helps. It translates to going up for rebounds and going up for balls in the end zone. Quick feet. It helps with getting in and out of your cuts. It definitely all translates to football.

You know me, I play basketball. I just try to take care of that part, make sure I'm ready coming into the workouts. Make sure I'm ready, sharp, things like that.

I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.

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.