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Quotes About Fitness

In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.
~ James Haskell
Something so simple as breakfast and eating the right things and making sure you eat breakfast was key to us, and it helped me specifically when I got to college to gain weight and get on the right nutritional plan.
~ Devin McCourty
I'm all about helping people understand more about exercise in general and more specifically on occasion, about certain key parts of their body and physique.
~ James Haskell
To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast.
~ Lee Haney
When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.
~ Julian Edelman
Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.
~ Eliud Kipchoge
Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.
~ Mark Sanchez
Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
~ Edgar Ramirez
There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.
~ Ray Lewis
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
~ Michael East
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
~ Christopher McDougall
I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.
~ Ruud Gullit
Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
~ Apolo Ohno
I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.
~ Genzebe Dibaba
I think that my size is an advantage, but also my speed.
~ Devon Cajuste
You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.
~ Emil Zatopek
Being 230 pounds, a lot of people don't think you can move the way I need to move, so that is just all the hard work I put into my legs and working on my speed and my legs.
~ Saquon Barkley
I work a lot on my coordination and starting speed.
~ Memphis Depay
I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.
~ Sage Northcutt
A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.
~ DeAndre Hopkins
For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.
~ Israel Folau
I have good hand speed.
~ Gervonta Davis
I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.
~ Dutee Chand
Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.
~ Zion Williamson