Quotes About Fitness

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

No one likes going out and sprinting 20 sprints, but you do it because it's going to help you.

It's good to have a fully-fit Gareth Bale involved in the squad.

Square meals often make round people.

I don't believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

Squash - definitely a rich's person sport, and it's only played in a handful of countries.

I play squash.

If you can do a squat and a pushup, you can build up to becoming a fitness guru.

The squat is ideal for building strength in the glutes, perhaps the most powerful collection of muscles in our bodies.

Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand athletic training and movements. I didn't even know how to squat, necessarily.

In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.

I can squat 405. I'm proud of that - that's one of my favorites.

When you're blocking someone, or when you're running, it's all about putting force into the ground, and that's the epitome of the back squat.

I'm a squat person: I love squats. I love back squats, things like that.

I think when you're younger in the game, you're like, 'Let me go bench. Let me go squat.' Now it's just like, 'Let me work on my balance.' It's about things that are more about injury prevention than getting stronger.

I try my best to squeeze in a simple exercise routine whenever I can - even though this is proving to be more challenging than I expect.