Michael Johnson Quotes

You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

Every time I am not playing, I am training harder to keep myself fit.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.

I'm training like an animal. Nobody trains harder than me.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.