AB de Villiers Quotes

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

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

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

Obviously, I'm coordinated and whatnot.

My father was a footballer. I used to play a lot as a kid, but not like a team or something, just with my family having fun. It makes your legs stronger and helps your co-ordination.

I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that's what they want to or not. Gymnastics just builds such a great fundamental strength at a young age, and they get great; they learn how to move with their body. I think that can translate to any sport later in life.

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'

When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

I grew up playing football and baseball.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.