Peyton Hillis Quotes

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

We definitely do a lot of tip drills at practice and try to work on your hand-eye coordination and stuff like that.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

You've got to catch the ball.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

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

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

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

I look at it somewhat as a way - when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you're not looking at your hands, you're looking at where the balls are, or you're looking at the audience.

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

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

Too much card playing is distracting my bowmen from their training.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.

When the ball is in the air, my job is to catch it, no matter where it's at, no matter how it is, no matter how difficult or how easy, you've just got to make it.

I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.

Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.

My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.

Every time I catch the ball, I'm seeing a lot of bodies. The key for me is not to force.