Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes

I always want to improve in all my facets of the game, whether it's the receiving or blocking aspects.

I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.

I'm developing more as a welterweight and becoming a better fighter.

Being a tight end, you have to be able to do everything. You have to be able to run routes; you have to be able to block, pass-protect, and run with the ball after a catch. So, that's how I attack my workouts - focusing on doing everything.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

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

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

I feel I can continue to grow as a player. I have a long time to continue to progress with my shooting, continue to keep my ball handling tight, continue to stay in shape. You know, all of it.

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.

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

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

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.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

Since I was a child, I watched tapes of Baggio, Zico, and Maradona, and then I tried to replicate them just playing on my own against the wall. Certainly it's talent, but you have to cultivate that talent.

At Liverpool, I studied Steven Gerrard all the time and improved my game that way. Here, I absorb all I can from Iniesta and Messi.

I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

Those years in Denmark changed my game and how I played football.

It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.

I fell like I'm a well-rounded football player.

I try to get stronger every year, that's part of me trying to be better as a football player.

I've always been fast, it's God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I'm learning more and more positionally so I don't have to rely on my pace so much.