Ronaldo Quotes

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

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

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

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

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

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

The 100m is never stressful.

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 knew that, to be the best right-back in the world, I had to improve my fitness so I could run up and down constantly for 90 minutes.

I obviously love to run the ball.

Ligue 1 is a very physical league. In each team, there are very fast players, dangerous wide men with plenty of speed and endurance.

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

I've always said the one change that would've been nice is if I'd been a bit faster - like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

I don't have a sprinter's body.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth... Man, I love to run!

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.

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'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.