Julian Edelman Quotes

For me to be a better player, I need to play more games, and having a gaffer I know has great trust in me gives me the confidence I need to help me improve my game.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

I have the tools and the size to be a good defender. I've just got to be able to put it all together.

My dad always taught me the fundamentals of the game: dribble, pass, shoot. So I never relied heavily on any one thing until I got to college, when I was just adjusting to the team.

You can never perfect nothing, really, so I need to tighten up my ballhandling, my shooting.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

Game-time is the most important thing for me. When you're playing week in, week out you have the confidence to show what you're capable of.

I enjoyed practices at college. That is where you really get down and dirty and really get some development and see what you have.

I've worked on my shot because that's what people have been critiquing me on my whole life. I've gotten a lot better at it, and I continue to get better at it.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.