Marquise Goodwin Quotes

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

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

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.

I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.

I played basketball my whole life. It definitely helps. It translates to going up for rebounds and going up for balls in the end zone. Quick feet. It helps with getting in and out of your cuts. It definitely all translates to football.

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

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

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

We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That's where everything starts.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

I think when you're running through a hole and you're hit in certain, different ways, you have to be able to move and change and make people miss.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.

I feel like I'm a very athletic back, and I'm capable of doing more than one thing.

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.

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