Sage Northcutt Quotes

Besides working out for nearly six hours a day, I am also learning different forms of martial arts.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

At Barcelona, we didn't do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard.

I've always been athletic my entire life and loved sports.

I had a few months of physical prep where I was training six hours a day - I was doing an hour and a bit of yoga, I would do a couple hours of cardio and weight-lifting, and then I would do an hour or maybe two of martial arts training.

Three days a week I do wrestling, as that's the best workout for the whole body.

Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a week I horseride.

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

I train every day for 3 to 4 and a half hours.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

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.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.