DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

I've always been fast, it's God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I'm learning more and more positionally so I don't have to rely on my pace so much.

My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

Speed has always been there in college football.

I doubt I'm the fastest player in the world!

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

You need guys who can run and throw.

My special thing is my speed. I'm fast.

I've had a lot of people tell me I'm faster than Tyson.

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 my strength is going to be my greatest attribute and speed.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

At my height, I've got to be fast.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

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.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

I can still steal a base anytime I get ready.

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

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