Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Quotes

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

When you're training you go to the gym when it's dark, you leave when it's dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

I put on muscle really quick.

If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

At Barcelona, we didn't do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard.

The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.

I was a runner in Delhi's Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.

I want to play football until my body says, 'You can't run anymore: you're dead.'

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

I have butt muscles, thigh muscles, and then my upper body is super skinny - except for in my shoulders, which you need for a little bit of strength to hold other players off the ball. So I think I've developed muscles 100 per cent from just shooting the ball and running. Every single thing about my body looks like soccer.

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

I did a lot of good work with my trainer and the physio in Barbados, and they were tremendous help to me during my comeback period.

I believe cricket is a harder game. If at age six you started both sports you'd excel at golf more.

I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17.

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.

One of my strengths is my explosive power. Especially at the start line, where you have to accelerate faster than your competitor. I train for that by lifting barbells. It helps your hips thrust and your muscles twitch faster, and it builds strength. But I don't do too much gym work because I don't want to bulk up.

I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.

Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.