Thibaut Courtois Quotes

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.

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

If you look after yourself and are willing to adapt - there is no reason why you can't play at the top level until your late 30s.

In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.

The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.

I hope to continue playing until the age of 40, just like Francesco Totti.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

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

When I first joined Manchester City, I was not 100 per cent fit.

In college, there never really was an offseason. The season would end, you'd get a week break, and then the hardest time of the year would start. Winter workouts in college were absolutely miserable.

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

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.

That's the thing: You'll lose your legs, your athleticism, but if you can shoot - definitely from 3 - you can play into your high thirties.

The only 'special supplements' I'm using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.

When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I had a tryout when I was, like, 19 and totally not prepared. I was 170 pounds with homemade gear. At that point, I realized how far I had to go to even get looked at. Then, when I was 22 or 23, I was much more prepared, and that second tryout went way better.

One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.