Edwin Moses Quotes

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

Obviously we've got a lot of science behind football these days and we've got a lot of people that can advise us on how best to look after our bodies.

If I feel there is something to help me recover better or make me a better athlete or player then I will always try it.

The person who's had the biggest impact on my career is Rick Celebrini, the physiotherapist.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.

Sports life is very short.

A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you're already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

I was religious with the way I stretched, the way I would do my soft-tissue work, whether it be massages or foam rollers. I was very good about getting in the hot tub and cold tub, and getting in the training room. I also love to do yoga, and I give yoga a lot of credit for my longevity in the NFL.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

For me, what works is keeping training short but with high intensity and then recovering well. Physio, massage, icing, things like that.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

That's something I kind of started Week 1, so when it got to where I'm getting a little beat up, I have a routine already for getting my body back together. Just getting in the cold tank, making sure you're getting massages.

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

The big goal is playing in June, so I'd rather be in the best shape I can be in health-wise than be dragging with nagging injuries or not being 100 percent trying to get to the Finals.