Hilary Knight Quotes

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

Don't let the ball hit you. Catch it or get out of the way. And if you get out of the way, that's when you have to stop playing.

I'm fast. I feel like I can feel things before the play starts. I think my reactions are quick. I think I have great vision. So, I use those.

I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet.

I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

It's a fast game, and you've got to play fast.

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you're moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn't fall into a pool... those are real life movements.

Things change very quickly. You have to be prepared and ready and on your toes at all times.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

I have made a lot of progress, above all in speed, reflexes, and experience.

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

They say with age your reflexes slow down. I've not felt it.

I've been blessed with great hand-eye coordination.

I catch the ball. You throw the ball, I catch it. You throw it close to me, I catch it. If you make me do something crazy to catch, I still catch it.

I'm not the fastest guy, but when it comes to agility, getting in and out of cuts and seeing something and going to get it, I do my best to make sure that's on point.

Sproles has the quickest feet I've ever seen out of any player.

My qualities are more when I move around and use my speed.

I have good hand speed.

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.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'