Julian Edelman Quotes

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

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

I do tennis ball drills mostly for bouncers, for my muscle memory as well.

There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.

We definitely do a lot of tip drills at practice and try to work on your hand-eye coordination and stuff like that.

I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.

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.

If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.

I went to Brazil to learn more about my body and my physique: what to do before training, during training, after training, even after the match.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.

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

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

You cannot train saving with your feet, but sometimes it is instinct. Sometimes it is quicker to go with the feet; going with the hands is sometimes more difficult. Even when I was young, I would go with my feet, it's something good for me.

Swing has always been my strength, and I am also working hard on it.

I'm working on my lower body, my explosiveness.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.

I work out in the morning before I join group training sessions with the team.

The same way you train yourself to be physically gifted player - whether you do weights, or running to get in shape or swimming - the mental side is the same way. You've got to train yourself to be ready for whatever.