Quotes About Commitment

Try to be one of the first people in here, work your butt off in the weight room, asking questions, try to prepare yourself like a pro, like a vet. Stuff like that is what sits well with your team.

I put in the work, got in the weight room and really worked hard and really built confidence within myself.

By the time the season's over, I'm ready to get back in the weight room and start training as far as getting stronger.

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

I spend around three hours on the track and two hours in the weight room, five or six days a week.

If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.

Being paid as a professional athlete didn't change how hard I was working because I'm always going to do that, whether it's the weight room or the film room.

I want to be the same guy I am in the weight room that I am on the football field.

Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.

Every little thing you do is going to add up and be the difference and contribute to your success. If you believe in that, it's going to make you want to get 1 percent better every day. Do that extra one rep in the weight room. Do that extra mental rep at practice. Stay a little longer because it's going to add up and be the difference.

For me I want to be a voice and consummate professional, be in the weight room and stay after practice.

I'm going to prepare like I'm the starter. That's me in the weight room, me in the meeting rooms.

That's an exciting feeling to know when you walk in the gym, or in the weight room, it's for a championship.

It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.

Me and my brother are players that spend three to four hours in the gym every day doing running, lifting heavy weights, and doing treadmill stuff.

Running a marathon is unlike anything I have done. You can recall all those bad weights sessions or the work you had to do in pre-season, but marathon running is worse than any of it, probably the hardest thing I have had to do in my entire life.

I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it's not like I never exercised.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.

The same way you train yourself to be physically gifted player - whether you do weights, or running to get in shape or swimming - the mental side is the same way. You've got to train yourself to be ready for whatever.

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Oh God, I have to go to the gym.' It's just pretty much a given. I do cardio, light weights, and a good stretch, and I always try to get to the pool for at least a 15-minute swim.

I just fell in love with the weights, fell in love with training hard.