Quotes About Athletics

If you want to train hard enough to go to the Olympics, then you're going to go out, and you're going to do it. It doesn't matter what skin color or who you are.

When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

I'm a person who prefers to play games rather than train.

I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I tend to have great chemistry with whomever I step in the ring with because of the way I train and came up in this business.

While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

I train five-and-a-half out of seven days and do a combination of exercise.

I top up my endurance with running and cycling because in a race, your heart rate is up at 150, so we have to train at that level.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I train six days a week.

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

I'm as much of a human being as the rest of the world. But if I don't train, I don't win. If I don't focus, I don't win. So I don't have a choice: I just have to run.

My coach and I will have these arguments where I am in pain or something is wrong, and I won't tell him because I feel like I need to train. We have a blow-up of arguments, and he says, 'Shelly, you need to tell me when these things are happening.'

I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down the line.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.