Quickness Quotations

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

One thing really impressed me about Peekskill. They obviously have very quick feet and are fast. But their hand quickness is incredible. We've never seen anything like that.

One of the keys of playing San Francisco is containing Alan when he gets the ball in the high post. When he gets the ball in the low post, he can use his quickness to beat you. He's going to be heard from in his own career.

When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. Now, it comes down to reactions, quickness and your teammates. The guy who wins usually did a better job.

We had a young team and we had a lot of sophomores who got a lot of quality playing time. We have quickness and speed and have athletes coming. I don't see why Astronaut couldn't be in the state playoffs this upcoming year or the next year.

Obviously, he brings a lot to our offense. He's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. He's had a great year when he's been out there and he's a playmaker. So having his athleticism and his speed and quickness on the field, I think is going to be a breath of fresh air for our offense.

Obviously I think we missed Adam being 100 percent-especially on the press break. For some inexplicable reason we missed a lot of shots early. I think their quickness bothered us.

I did not realize Aldridge was as long as he is. He covers a lot of ground out there. Very tough to defend. Tonight it was real tough on us because of the size, strength and quickness around the basket.

I don't know this to be true, but our quickness was just as quick as them, if not quicker, at certain spots. We thought it was bothering them. I don't know if they face our kind of quickness in our league. Maybe they do, I don't know. We pressure everybody pretty much that we play, just like they do. We felt it bothered them early in the game and it's something we started harping on.

We need to move the ball better than the last three years, use our quickness as an advantage. I expect to be competitive in our conference. We need to win some key away games.

Since Kei didn't play against them in the game at their place, they didn't know what she could do, so she might have surprised them a little. Most of her points came from using her quickness to get inside.

Since we were out-sized and out-weighed, we tried to utilize our quickness to fast-break as often as possible. The way (Sharon) Houston and Moore were crashing the boards, we wanted to get the ball out on the perimeter as quickly as we could.

My main goal was to get faster and quicker. It helped a lot with my quickness and overall speed.

My inside game is pretty much based on quickness and my quickness is back to where it was. I've just got to get the explosiveness back and just get the feel back. I felt pretty good toward the end.

Mobility and quickness can help you in a lot of ways.

She made some big plays. For a little sophomore to handle the pressure like she did was great. She brings a lot of quickness and a spark to us. I'm really impressed with how well she played tonight.

She's worked her way into one of our top, if not our top, defender on the perimeter. Like I say, the quickness and the ability -- you watch her do the slide, and she's down lower than most, if not all of the people we have. We're going to miss her when she's gone because she's just such a -- the girl always has a smile on her face, the girl always is enthusiastic and leads by example.

She's very strong. And she has a lot of quickness as well.

She was picking the ball up early. She used my pace and the quickness of the court to her advantage and came up with some very good shots.

She was picking the ball up very early. She used my pace as well as the quickness of the court to her advantage. She made some great shots even on the defensive side.

She's in there banging away. We ask her to play a post defense and she doesn't mind at all. She doesn't get pushed around by anybody. She uses her quickness to her advantage to shoot in and out of passing lanes that other posts usually can't get into. She gives up a lot because of her size but because of her ability, quickness and strength, she's able to overcome those shortcomings.

She's pretty good considering her size. If she can keep the ball alive, she uses her quickness to get the tip.

She's real quick and athletic. I think it took a little while for us to get used to her quickness and for her to get used to us.

I would say that in the last three or so practices, we're starting to see some quickness ? quickness in the different techniques he needs to use at that nose guard position.

From the time he started throwing the ball all the way through the mound, you could see there was more quickness to his arm and he looked more comfortable throwing the ball.

I don't think Yao gets the credit defensively for the improvements he's made in lateral quickness and mobility. He's made great strides. That last play, he was up and out and made (Richardson) take a much more difficult shot.

But those guys are very skilled and very agile. Although the size and strength of some of the people they play against will create a problem for us, I think their skill and quickness and athletic ability will create a problem for some of those teams.

Chris is a good athlete. With his size and quickness he's not going to give you an easy shot.

When he's got his legs, what he can do, he can defend in the post with his feet. He can use his quickness and play different angles in the post and not have to rely on totally fronting and totally just playing behind. He gives you an added dimension defensively to do some things.

Henry's a little bit more of a shifty guy, ... He's still got quickness and speed, but he has a little bit of cutback ability that Brown may not have. Doesn't have quite the same power that Brown has. So they've got a great change-up going on.

Henry's a little bit more of a shifty guy. He's still got quickness and speed, but he has a little bit of cutback ability that Brown may not have. Doesn't have quite the same power that Brown has. So they've got a great change-up going on.

What we were able to do more in the second half was contain their quickness and ability to get penetration. We just had to stay with our game plan.

He wants quickness and explosion off the ball. He's a real up-tempo guy.

He was wrestling really tough on the day and you can't coach balance and quickness and Javier has both. And once they get the momentum going it's hard to stop that youth.

He had no lift and his quickness was affected on post-up stuff.

He has tremendous ball hawking instincts, and his quickness and speed helped him deflect and break up many other passes. Swartz also possesses good ball instincts and has a knack for making plays.

He has a good knack at scoring in tight. Michael has tremendous quickness and is a tough rider.

His quickness with getting rid of the football, his quickness with decision making. The normal things that a young quarterback needs to work on.

He's got to be able to show that he can counteract his (5-9) size with his speed and quickness, make plays, not turn the ball over and make open shots. And then, defensively, he has to use his speed and quickness to harass guys, make them use the clock, as opposed to getting in a position where the post him up.

He's got great stop-and-start quickness. As a runner he's hard to find. I'm not going to put him in his category but skill-wise he's like Barry Sanders. His stop-and-start quickness reminds me of that.

He's a whiz. His speed and quickness are unmatched. When he's on, he's difficult to control.

He does not time great in the 40, but his first step, two steps, five-yard and 10-yard times are good. He has great quickness. His strength is in his balance, quickness and long arms. He makes use of those. He has good quickness and knows how to play the game.

He gets it down out there every night. He's a big guy who really has a great outside touch, real quickness for putting the ball on the floor and getting to the rack and the way he is on the boards offensively and defensively. I've just got to try to stay a step ahead of him.

He makes us a better team when he was out there. He has a lot of ability and his size and strength help him. He has enough quickness and strength to score both inside and outside.

He may have gotten to 85%, maybe 90%, by the end of the year, ... but we didn't see the quickness and burst we see this year.

We're probably not as sharp as we would have been had we practiced all of last week and played a game, but I think by Sunday we're going to be fine. I think the energy and the quickness and the legs we had will more than offset the little bit of maybe not as good timing.

I was disappointed. I didn't think we played as well as we could. Their quickness hurt and they were more aggressive than us.

Lisle has very good quickness that hurt us. I thought our kids did a nice job not giving up when they got behind.

Mat drills can improve their quickness so much. It also (addresses) intensity. Boatman never had anything like mat drills before. We like his intensity.

St. Edward made the mistake of pressing us. The greatest thing about that team was they had to play on our terms. With Stephanie and Amanda their quickness just was too much for teams. They were able to play the game more quickly than our opponents were. If you go back to our game film, they played more quickly. It was just three notches above what other teams were able to play.

Steven is a fierce athlete. He has the speed and lateral quickness to continue to be an aggressive, physical defenseman at the collegiate level.

Ore had some good runs. He put the ball on the ground one time, but I thought he showed some quickness through the hole. And I thought George Bell showed some good ability, too.

Our quickness came through for us in the end. We lost two seniors to foul trouble and our younger players really answered the call.

Our quickness on defense caused them problems. We're playing our best basketball right now.

Just all of that pressing gave me a chance to drive the lane. Working against their quickness was hard to deal with.

Mallory will provide us with another weapon up top. Her speed, quickness and ability on the ball will make her a threat to opposing defenses. She is also a very hard worker and has a great knack for scoring goals.

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

I think I've improved on my blocking a lot. My quickness at the net, transitioning back-and-forth, has gotten a lot better.

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

I think the verdict as well as the quickness of the verdict sends a clear message that my client had absolutely no criminal intent. Now he can put this experience behind him and move on.

I think one of the objectives of any professional organization is to find diamonds in the rough, what they affectionately call 'sleepers,' somebody that no one else knows about. Jai Lewis is as talented an athlete as I've ever been around. His hand quickness and foot quickness are incredible.

I think our speed and quickness is good, and we have the potential to be an outstanding defensive team,

I think his quickness and speed. He's got a knack for rushing the passer.

It does lend itself to a guy who has tremendous quickness and burst. Coles ran it pretty well, too, but sometimes being quick enough to burst by a guy is the difference.

Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.

I think their quickness and length had a lot to do with it. Turnovers were problem number one. Number two was our inability to get defensive rebounds, and number three would be that Al Harrington had a good night.

I think the light bulb is starting to go on for Jordan. He's beginning to use his size and quickness to his advantage, but I thought he kind of lost his legs in the second half.

I thought our quickness on defense was the key tonight. But the biggest winner was the cause.

I thought both teams started the game very intense. Georgia's athleticism and quickness on the perimeter really forced us into some early turnovers and Georgia was able to covert those turnovers into baskets. Georgia shot extremely well. We couldn't get anything started offensively.

I think in the end it was their quickness and their ability to play the passing lanes and force us a little deeper into our offense than we wanted to be. That's how they wanted to play and they did.

I think it's kind of been hard for a lot of teams to match up against us in the post as far as speed and quickness and all that kind of stuff. If they weren't able to do it, too, it wouldn't be a surprise to me.

I think it's been hard for any team to match up with us in the post as far as speed and quickness and all that kind of stuff.

I thought we would react better to their quickness. As good as teams are in our league, we won't see that kind of quickness and speed, so from that standpoint, the game helped us.

I thought that might have been one our best defensive efforts of the season. They are a very tough, physical team and we always worry about being a small team because of our guards that I thought we handled their toughness with quickness and toughness defensively.

We need one of our keys to be possession. Jon gives us some quickness up front. He's very elusive and he's a good dodger.

I wasn't sure it would be this close. But I knew we would play hard. Auburn had the size and quickness advantage on us, but I'm proud of the way our guys played.

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and use their hands a lot on defense, so we've got to take care of and put an emphasis on having ownership of the basketball.

We were intimidated by all that height. Everyone they had on their starting unit was at least as tall as our tallest guy. By the time we figured out we could play with them, use our quickness to offset their height, we were way behind.

We'll find out where we are. Both teams rely on their quickness and speed more than the inside game. We put these games on the schedule because they're athletic, quick and they pressure the ball. We lost three guards to graduation last year. We're trying to find out if we can handle the pressure. That's how teams are going to try to beat us. We'll see if we can handle it.

We are inexperienced at the position. We have some people with some quickness and some speed, but we just need carriers.

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I was playing around with different concepts in my mind and came up with trying to use our big men up top because of their quickness and the confusion I thought they could cause.

Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.

That's unreal. We have a lot of quickness and range over there (in the infield).

We are not very big. Our linebacking corps has good size. We are not very big on the defensive line and we are not very big in the secondary, but we do have some quickness and we do have some good hitters. We play a fast style of defense. So far, our hitting and our tackling has been really good.

You know it was a nice and quiet gym ? it wasn't very loud here and we just couldn't stick to our game plan. We have a typical pressure defense; put them in spots where they don't operate as well, but we left girls open. We are a guard-oriented team ? we have quickness and we didn't use out strengths (tonight).

Michael has established himself. His quickness and skill development make him as good a post player as there is in this league. He has the quickness, and he can also be over-powering.

We were never really able to use our size because their quickness was a big part of the game.

We were trying to use our quickness against their size. We were able to get a lot of easy baskets and that was the key tonight.

We were very active on defense. We were playing three guards so we needed to use our quickness to get some tips. We were able to get that tonight.

We have a lot of good quickness on that team and a lot of good hitters. We're been real pleased with their production this year. That's a good group of girls.

We had to use that speed and quickness because we couldn't match up with them in a power game. We executed the plan well and made them run the floor, and kept the pace up.

We executed really well compared to their quickness and speed.

We're at a quickness disadvantage, so it makes it look like an effort thing when it truly is a quickness thing. On defense, we do maybe one thing, 1 1/2 things, but we can't help and recover and then guard the ball. They went by us the whole night.