DeAngelo Williams Quotes

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

I look at our sport as the same as tennis. Male and female tennis is very, very different. The men's is more quick and powerful, and the women's is more about finesse and has more rallies - and that's the same with men's and women's football.

When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.

When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.

I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

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.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

Football is a reaction sport.

You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.

It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just can't take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.