Rashad Evans Quotes

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.

If you're truly serious about your physique and health, in totality, I think you need to pull out all stops. You need to really just hone in on that warrior within.

By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

My life is training.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else, but it is about being better than what you used to be!

Any time you're banged up, your body hurts, you don't really feel like going to the gym. That's when I feel like you really have to push through it. That's when you really make the leaps and bounds in your game. So, pushing through those days is never easy, but that's what gets you good.

My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.

It's a quiet life. Normally it's training, house, gym.

I'm going to stay in the gym, stay watching film, stay focused, stay being an all around professional.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

Every time I write down my goals, I realize that I have to hit the gym. I have to eat right. I have to improve in the ring. I have to give it 100%. I have to improve on my promos. These are the things that go through my head daily because I work hard on them.

I work really hard, and muscles don't come naturally for me, so I like to show my progress and encourage others.

I was never a sporty kid. Then I discovered my physicality and running and endorphins.