Quotes About Training

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

Greg Jackson is a sport killer

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.