Stipe Miocic Quotes

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

I can only work out for so long before I start to really feel the effects.

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.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can't put too much effort into it. You're constantly monitoring workloads.

As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.

Sometimes I have to be careful not to work out too much because then it makes me so hungry.

I do know when my body is ready or when it's going to perform best for me.

I did wreck a running machine once at Seville. I was only supposed to be doing 12 minutes, but I went on for 15, and it suddenly packed in. I had to hang on to the side to make sure I didn't fall.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

You can tell if you feel like you are unable to recover from the workout you had. It's still hard to breathe. You don't have energy. You are sore instantly. You just can't seem to get enough water. Then it's too hard.

Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

My body had given up on me at one point. And as many injuries as I've had over the years, I truly believed that my body needed to rest and not be on the grind like it's been for the last 15 years.

They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.

I still want to look good while training hard and throwing down.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

Actually, when I don't have a fight I'm training the hardest because I'm not worried about getting hurt.

I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.

Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.

You do what I did to my body, for as long as I did, and it's bound to take its toll.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.