Quotes About Athletics

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

Some people don't believe in cold. I've gotten so used to it that I love it... and doing those things to get my muscles to bounce back and recover have been very beneficial for the longevity of my career.

I'm not 25 anymore. It takes much longer to recover now from a game than before.

The quickest time to rehydrate is right after you're done training, so I'm always carrying these gallons of water to drink, drink, drink so my body can recover faster. And that's a huge part of being able to take damage, by the way. If you're hydrated, your brain is lubricated, you can take bigger shots.

Sometimes you're playing three games in a week, then you have to get the recovery in.

When you've only got two days between games the recovery process is key.

It's very difficult in England because the season is very long and hard compared to other places. There's not a lot of recovery time at all, not even a break at Christmas. You just have to do your best and get on with it.

Something I've been starting to use almost every day is a blood flow restriction system for my legs. It's good for recovery and strength.

When I fly, it takes me two, three days to recovery, to be good physically.

Eating cleaner has helped me with recovery, to keep my body in position to play as many minutes as my team needed.

It's not easy to play a guy in the field after he's just pitched. There's a time for arm recovery too that you have to be cognizant of.

After a hard training day, I used to massage myself. That meant recovery was slow.

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.

Since I was the No. 1 recruit I heard a lot of similar stuff like that, LeBron James comparisons. You definitely have to respect what he's accomplished in this league.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

I just like going against the Redskins, I guess.