Footwork Quotes

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." (John Searle)

You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Oscar Robertson

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Wilson Mizner

His use of rhythm, his timing, his footwork. Ray Robinson was the greatest combination of speed and power that ever came together in one fighter.

Sugar Ray Robinson

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

Johnny Weir

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

Sam Rockwell

I dazzle you with that footwork.

Bobby Darin

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Jeff Greenfield

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Karel Reisz

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.

Bobby Wallace

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore. (Oscar Robertson)

The late Sifu Wong Shun-leung, of "Hong Kong” wing chun fame, in his seminars around the world over the years, liked to make a comparison with the modern combat sport of Western boxing, which he observed had changed quite dramatically over just the last sixty or so years, from the crouching-like postures of boxers like Joe Louis in the 30s and 40s, to the flashy footwork of the likes of Muhammad Ali in the 60s and 70s, through to the more upright and flat-footed approach of recent champions such as Mike Tyson.

Wong Shun Leung

In 2013, Sonny Bill Williams drove the Roosters to glory with the skill, footwork and defensive weaponry that makes him arguably the most complete back-rower the code has seen.

Sonny Bill Williams