Troy Brown Quotes

I can't remember what times I used to do in training because I always loved football and didn't have any interest in an athletics career. But I was always the quickest.

I've always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I'm not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are.

Being explosive, quick, elusive and fast helps my game, so I do tons of lunges, leg press and different explosion type of runs.

I'm now comfortable bowling long spells. Strength training has brought the pace up.

You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.

When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.

In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

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

The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

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.

My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.

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

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

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.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

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.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

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.