Becky Sauerbrunn Quotes

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

I think that wrestling guys has elevated my game in a whole different way. My timing, my transitions, everything is crisp. It's a whole different level.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

You can never perfect nothing, really, so I need to tighten up my ballhandling, my shooting.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

During the season, I usually work out two or three times a week. I'll do a full-body workout after games. I plan it out the day of.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

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.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

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 started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.