Kerri Walsh Quotes

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.

I'm always training to be quite honest, but there are those moments when you're a little more out of shape than you should be.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Well there's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. But offseason is really important because generally I'm staying off the sand and getting my feet under me, and it's really important for my body to know what it feels like to have sound footing under me.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

I get to work out with Eli Manning and NFL guys daily, couldn't ask for anything more.

I'm trying to get myself in good shape, do my workouts, so that when I am back, I am ready to go.

It was my idea to get in the gym. Fulham have pushed me as well to be in there two or three times a week, not just weights but flexibility as well to help my all-round body.

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 really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.

I try to take as many reps as I can, whether it's on a video game, playing EA 'Madden Football' or in the playbook, just drawing it or just visualizing it in my head.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

I try to simulate as much as possible what we do on the field in my workouts, so when I get with the team I'm somewhere close.

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints, being at the training ground.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

I'm in the gym every day, Monday through Friday. And I train really hard to go out and do a tour. So that, basically, what I'm doing with my trainer is that I train harder in the gym than the amount of energy that I expend on the stage. So by the time I'm ready to go out on the road, doing a show is a whole lot easier.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

It's really nice to be able to go into the offseason and attack the training as soon as possible.

I make sure I do a lot of core work in my training.