Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

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.

I study this sport.

I think I had a positive development at Chelsea. I was very young when I arrived, only 20, and the problem I had was injuries.

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 learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

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.

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

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.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

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.

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and was tired of dealing with injuries. I just got tired of playing football, if you want to know the truth, and I was sitting on the floor at my father in-law's house and started to watch pro wrestling. I've watched it for a little bit before, so I thought to myself, 'You know what? I can do that!'

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

I'm really interested in sports medicine.

In this league, it's all about being close to 100 percent on game day.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.

We took the handcheck out of the game to give guys like Steph Curry more freedom. Why didn't we say, 'Just get in the weight room and get stronger?'