Sean Astin Quotes

When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth... Man, I love to run!

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.

I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.

Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.

Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.

I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.

I ran over 10 years without missing a day, averaging close to 15 miles. I loved being able to run a long distance and get that feeling of strength and exhilaration from being in good shape. There was a meditative quality about it. Almost effortlessness. That's a special feeling.

Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.

If I can force my winger backwards, it just comes down to who's fitter, and I like to think I'm pretty fit.

I can feel my body is starting to get tired, all that training, which I've been doing three or four times a week since I was eight, and recovery is taking longer.

I would challenge anyone who thinks that what we do isn't taxing on your body. People see what we do and think it would be fun to try, but I would challenge anyone to do what we do and show them how physically demanding it is. It deserves a lot more respect.

Being involved in sports, you think less about how your body looks and more how it performs.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun of the way I run. I do, like, karate hands. Instead of running with my hands closed together like a normal person. It's like I'm trying to be aerodynamic or something, so my hands are straight like razors. Karate hands.