Israel Folau Quotes

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

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.

Snowboarding requires lower-body strength.

I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.

I think my strength is going to be my greatest attribute and speed.

Obviously, you look at footwork and things of that nature, but that's not just at my position. That's from everyone.

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.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

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.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

If a boy hopes to be a good football player, the main things he needs are brains, courage, self-restraint, coordination, fire of nervous energy and an unselfish point of view, ready to sacrifice for the team as a whole. Of course, he must have a bit of speed and a bit of physique, but then these things are taken for granted.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

Football is a reaction sport.

Football is about balance.

You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.