Saquon Barkley Quotes

I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

People underestimate my speed. I'm pretty fast.

My qualities are more when I move around and use my speed.

My speed is my greatest asset.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just can't take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.

My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.

Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

Robert Quinn. He's ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do... at three hundred pounds!

I doubt I'm the fastest player in the world!

It's good to defend a player that's as fast as me because I have to learn.

For me, from day one, I don't think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn't have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.

I can move, I'm very shifty and at the same time I'm big.

Back in the day, a lot of running backs used to be 230 pounds, ground and pound the ball right up the middle. One thing I pride myself is being able to do what those guys do, as well.

I think that's one of the things that intrigues people the most: my defensive versatility. My movement and mobility is something that piques everybody's interest.

When you're in the Championship, you try and move the opponent around a bit and pull players into positions they don't want to be in.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.

Even if I'm not a big guy, I have good footwork, I'm fast on the court, and I see the ball really early.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.