Mark McGwire Quotes

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

They say with age your reflexes slow down. I've not felt it.

I've been blessed with great hand-eye coordination.

I catch the ball. You throw the ball, I catch it. You throw it close to me, I catch it. If you make me do something crazy to catch, I still catch it.

I'm a very coordinated individual.

I hope people know I can throw now.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I also think that I had great mechanics.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.