Bryce Harper Quotes

In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.

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

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

During the offseason, I didn't take any time off. And I played this game for over 20 years. So right after the season, I would go right back into my regimen.

In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.

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

I got to work on my body, kept working on my game, and also just got to learn out there from the guys who are playing. Getting stronger, working on my upper-body strength, lower-body strength, just trying to get stronger.

You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.

It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.

People may laugh or whatever, but my strength is something that I have to work on. It's not something that just happens overnight, it takes dedication and hard work and it has a purpose as it helps me every week on the pitch.

Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.

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.

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

The real football starts in training camp.

I've always felt like I know how much I've put into every offseason.

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.

We put everything we have into the offseason.

There's a perception of me out there that my effort is not there, but that's just he said, she said. A person says something, everyone believes it. But they're not there in the early mornings or when I work out.

I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

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.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.