Lawrence Tierney Quotes

People think catching a football one-handed is a technique, but it's more a reaction. Because you really don't think about it when you're doing it. You just do it. I couldn't sit there and try to teach someone how to catch a one-handed football.

The less thinking you do, the better you play.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

I'm constantly surprised by... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.

It's not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I'm like, 'Dang, I didn't even mean to do that.'

Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it's more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.

The reason that I was so quick was because I was impatient. I couldn't wait to hit the next shot.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

I don't act; I react.

Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.