Rafael van der Vaart Quotes

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

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

I can run pretty quick.

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

If you put me against most sprinters in the world, I reckon over a start I could get very close, if not take them.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

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.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

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.

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.

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

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

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

There are guys out there faster than me.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

I think my speed is one of my biggest assets.

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.

Rashford's pace is incredible. You don't catch him when he breaks away.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

Kyle Walker thinks he's quicker than me. In games, it's different: you run different distances, players are in different positions, so I don't know. But one day, we will see!