David Foster Wallace Quotes

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

Tennis always fascinated me, because it made every demand: technology, tactics, physique, endurance. The competition of one against one has a very special charm.

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.

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

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

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.

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.

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.

Wrestling is all about the power of the individual.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

Speed has always been there in college football.

They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It's just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They're different; there's no question. They're huge, they're fast, and they're all these wonderful things.

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

I'm a great inside and outside runner.

I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.

Slowly from just touching the ball I got to making the ball and eventually hitting a decent defensive shot. Because I don't have a lot of weapons I have to use my speed.

I look at our sport as the same as tennis. Male and female tennis is very, very different. The men's is more quick and powerful, and the women's is more about finesse and has more rallies - and that's the same with men's and women's football.

Football is a very instinctual game, and it's very fast-paced.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.