Wilfried Zaha Quotes

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

I think tennis was just in my genes.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Wrestling just comes naturally to me. It wasn't like there was this moment where I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.' It's just what I did. It was my life.

I was born a footballer. Before I could walk, I was chasing balls.

As soon as I was old enough to move and walk, I went straight to sports. My mom said I never even played with toys.

You can improve your punching power, but only to an extent. If you can punch hard, then it's just god-given, that's just nature, not nurture and there's not much you can do to develop punching power.

I think writers are born, not made.

Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever you're good at.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

You can tell when somebody is chosen basketball-wise. You can tell.

Shaq wasn't talented - he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn't strong.