Eric Weddle Quotes

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

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.

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.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

I'm a great inside and outside runner.

I thought you got faster by running on sleds. That does get you faster, but the most important thing when it comes to speed is getting your technique down. Technique, that's the main thing when it comes to speed.

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

I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

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.

When I was younger, I didn't really train for the sprint - I trained to get over the mountains. I have to train it now I'm getting older. But the sprint is more born, rather than made.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

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

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

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.