Zac Taylor Quotes

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

Athletics is in my blood.

Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

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

When I'm fit, I'm so confident because you know you can do all the runs and be aggressive like the manager wants.

I want to be known as a guy who breaks tackles; that's the whole objective of the game.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

I was always pretty much the biggest running back on the field at any given time.

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

If I am on the pitch there is a lot of energy in my body.

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

You would not want me on your football team.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

We play a violent sport.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.