Pierce Brosnan Quotes

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

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

I feel like I'm a very athletic back, and I'm capable of doing more than one thing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

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 can run around all day.

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.

I think I'm a good athlete.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.

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

Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

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.

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.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one's legs.

Fitness is amplified in one-day cricket - fielding, running ones, twos, threes. Sometimes in an over you are running six twos. If you are not fit enough, you can't run those runs.