Kevin Knox Quotes

If I didn't have quads and hamstrings, soccer would be a lot different for me than it is now. I would be pushed all over the field. My lower body is something that has made me the player I am today, and it makes me feel strong.

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.

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 think I play well getting up and down the court.

In basketball, the legs are the most important part of your body. A lot of people think it's the upper body because you shoot with your arms, but your legs are always carrying you, so if you don't lift leg weights, your muscles will be easily fatigued.

I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.

At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can't get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

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.

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

You can always get better with your ballhandling.

Snowboarding requires lower-body strength.

Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

I thought you got faster by running on sleds. That does get you faster, but the most important thing when it comes to speed is getting your technique down. Technique, that's the main thing when it comes to speed.

I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.

I'm not the fastest guy, but when it comes to agility, getting in and out of cuts and seeing something and going to get it, I do my best to make sure that's on point.

Sproles has the quickest feet I've ever seen out of any player.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

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