Football Drills Quotes

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

I would say a lot of it came from a lot of different drills that Coach Fleck put me through. That's my man. He taught me a lot, a lot, a lot about receiver play. And he taught me a lot about catching the ball and just hand placement.

If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.

I haven't forgotten how to play football. But I need to play each weekend.

If you're a punter or a kicker, you don't have a lot of film study to do. There's not a lot of things to watch. You're just going to kick the ball.

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

I remember my first practice, from Pee Wee football when I was, like, 10, and I didn't know what was going on.

Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

Anytime I can get into a situation in which I'm running routes, I love it. I mean, I'd go out in the streets and just run some routes.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.

I want to play as much football as I can.

I'm really good at football.

I was 14, but it was on a thing called day release, so we took the day off school on a Wednesday to train and do school at Cobham, and at the end of the day, we got asked to train with the first team just because of numbers. There was a drill where it was like a 1v1 drill, and I got partnered with Drogba. I was going 1v1 with Drogba when I was 14.

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.

In this position I play, it's just repetition and continuing to throw the routes and getting that velocity back that you would throw in game speed.