Quotes About Routine

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.

I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work.

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

I'm a creature of habit and prefer spending time with the people who matter to me.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

I do spin class at 7 A.M.

I always do my training session first thing in the morning. After that, I'll take four eggs for breakfast, along with spinach and avocado.

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.

I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

I'm a big cardio guy. I love spinning, and I do that seven to eight times a week because I have time. What else am I going to do? I don't have a hobby. I don't play golf; I don't restore cars; and I don't have a fixer-upper house that I'm working on. So basically, my day is built around just working out. That's what I enjoy doing.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

On the road, almost every day I'll do 100 squats, or sometimes I might do 50 squats and a bunch of leg lifts. I'll split them up right before I get in the shower and before I go to bed, or sometimes I'll do all 100 at once. Whatever I do, I try to get those in.

My children were not overly spoiled. They had to make their beds. They had to line up their shoes.

Man, I'm pretty spoiled in San Antonio. I don't do media every day.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.