Michael Weatherly Quotes

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was.

My body is strong, and I have a strong will.

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

I have days when I go to the gym and I can't push that 315, but then I look at my video of me benching 6 reps at 315, and I know I did do that. That wasn't a dream. That wasn't some weird fantasy. So I know that next time I'll go in and I'll do that.

In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it's a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we've accomplished it, we feel stronger.

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I love proving that I can do something.

I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

I always thought if you run a Marathon in less than 4 hours, there is a tick of athletic accomplishment in that. Anything over that is just an old guy with a hard head who isn't going to stop until he's done.

My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.

I am a strong competitor inside the ring, outside the ring, in the journey through life.

I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.