Quotes About Strength

When I speak and say I am the best in the world and have the capability to dominate everybody in my weight class, I really believe that.

People go on about weight. Mike Tyson wasn't the biggest heavyweight and he was an animal.

For my size and frame, 135 pounds fits me better, and a I feel really good here. I've actually gotten stronger because I've done a lot of strength and conditioning to actually lose the weight. It made me better.

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

I took my weight training to a new level.

Weight lifting is the easiest part of my day.

The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.

I'm not really into weight training.

I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time.

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

I'm not one of those guys who gets stronger in the weight room.

Mostly, I go in the weight room and visit.

Being in the weight room has helped me. Defensively, it helps because I'm not getting backed down easily. My legs are stronger, so I can move my feet better.

Me, guarding the best post players in the league, it definitely takes a toll on your body. But that's why I get massages regularly, cold tub, foot baths, rest and the weight room.

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

I'm taking care of my body, getting my treatment, I'm in the weight room... I'm doing everything I can to stay healthy, and hopefully the genetics kind of take over from there.

It was a big change for me not to go into the weight room and train like a football player - I'd been programmed my whole life to go in and make myself stronger so that I could push people around.

To me, it's not all about how much weight you can lift in the weight room. It's how you can manipulate weight in the ring.

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 think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.