Quotes About Training

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.

Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

I took my time with the sport of MMA. I wrestled, won the Olympics. I boxed for years.

You need a little bit of experience to do well in the Olympics.

It is extremely difficult to get a medal at the World Championships, even more than the Olympics. And when one is not 100 per cent prepared, it is next to impossible to win a medal there.

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That's why I didn't feel pressure.

Athletics needs more focus because it is the heart and soul of any Olympics.

Medal in Olympics is not small thing. There is a need to develop sportsperson especially athletes from the grass-root level to win medal in Olympics. The athletes should start to develop from the school level.

The best of the best are in the Olympics, all of the athletes work hard to get there.

I first decided that I could make a career of MMA after I decided to take it seriously and not act like a teenager in some band, but fully commit myself like a professional. Roughly, when I decided to up and move in the middle of the night from Omaha, Neb. to Denver, Colo. for proper training.

I have my turbo bike at home, so I can do high cadence stuff and interval sessions on there, and then I get out on the road once a week to do a 50km ride.

I circuit train three times a week and run 10 km once a week.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the 'keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.

There's only one way to train, and that's being in the ring. And even in practice, it's not the same as performing in front of a crowd.

There's a lot of bad habits a lot of guys have now in the NBA and in college, so there's only one way to get them started right and that's to go back to the roots.