Grip Strength Quotes

The number one thing is to catch the football and maintain possession.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

If your shot is broke, you at least want to shoot it comfortably. You want to be comfortable shooting a broke shot. You don't want to be uncomfortable shooting a broke shot.

In cricket, you should keep your wrist as straight as possible, unlike golf.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

I've been told I have pretty big hands my whole life.

My friends like to remind me that I have relatively weak fingers. Aerobic strength and general endurance have come easy, but finger strength has always been my biggest weakness.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

You should hold the top hand on the stick like you would hold a hammer when you're driving a nail. You have the most leverage, and you won't get your wrist broken.

I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.

Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.

Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.