Tony Ferguson Quotes

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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.

When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

I'm a great player. I play fast; I'm a great tackler.

I just love how fluid football has to be, how much time and energy it takes to practice and then taking it to the field and executing in a game situation.

I'm going out there, and I'm going to play football how I know to play football.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

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.

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

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.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.