Connor McDavid Quotes

I've upped my size tremendously. Forearms strength, shoulder strength has gotten crazy strong. I've been working hard on that.

I've picked up a lot of muscle weight. I have to be a physically strong guy.

I like to be strong.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Squats and hang cleans. I love them. You can just feel yourself getting bigger and better.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

I've been doing a lot of strength and stretch work to get stronger.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

I want people to realize bodybuilders are athletes. We have a very meticulous philosophy on how we are able to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.

When you push and pull heavy things, your body thinks it's going to die, and so it's like, 'I better get bigger, in case we do that tomorrow.'

Obviously, getting stronger is the key, and knowing how to use my body, knowing what to expect.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

I knew I wasn't soft. I knew I could play on this level and I knew that being in the paint was just a physical position that I wasn't strong enough for. I wanted to get myself strong enough where I could be dominant down there.

To me, it's not all about how much weight you can lift in the weight room. It's how you can manipulate weight in the ring.

I've been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.

Bodybuilding is about building your body. Whether you do it to maintain your fitness levels, climb Everest, run the marathon, or be a competitive bodybuilder is up to you.

When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I'd do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.

You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.

There is a physicality where I had to become a bit bigger to face bigger players.