Quotes About Progress

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story.

Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

I used to think weight loss happens quickly, but it has taken a lot of time. There is no secret to it.

In some cases where the team is mixed, there's almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work they need, and the older vets are in the weight room getting strength and conditioning.

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.

I've put my time in the weight room and I can definitely feel it.

I lift weights in the offseason about four times a week; during the season, I'll lift three times a week. The weight training is key because most guys come in during the summertime as strong as they are going to get, and they fizzle down as the year starts.

The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.

I do weights three or four times a week, and it has had an incredible impact on my confidence.

Go out and do your drills that you do to try to get better. You lift your weights, try to take things from the classroom to grass, try to get better every day.

Even as a teenager, I wanted to move up the weights and win belts.

When I started lifting weights, I remember I could barely bench the bar. I mean, I'm shaking all over the place, the bar's falling, and I'm like, 'I can't lift 45 pounds,' but it just goes to show how much work I put in.

To make physical gains, you would go to the gym and lift weights. It's the same for the mental side. The work you put in on the mental side needs the same dedication as the physical side.

I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

I never know if it's the right choice I'm making. It's always weird going from one place to another.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird it will be to be a female historian.

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.