Bill Bradley Quotes

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

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.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it's off, it will mess with your mechanics.

The players who tend to make the difference are often great dribblers. Some are very fast; others have a repertoire of moves and feints. These players need to have great technique in order to be good dribblers. But I'm not a good dribbler.

It's not always about reach, it's about footwork, it's being fast, in and out, stuff like that.

I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.

I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.

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.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

Obviously, you look at footwork and things of that nature, but that's not just at my position. That's from everyone.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

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

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 spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.