Quotes About Training

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

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

A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.

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

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I've always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I just remember playing in my school and then getting invited to go along to train with a development squad at Reading. My first training session, the manager said, 'You have to come and play with the academy girls,' so that would probably be my first footballing memory.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.

It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.

My job is to prepare the squad.

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.

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.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

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.

When I'm in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I'll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.

An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.