Channing Tatum Quotes

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

If you want to break through, your mind should be able to control your body. Your mind should be a part of your fitness.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.