Dwight Howard Quotes

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

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

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.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

My dad was a boxer, so he was in pretty good shape, and we had weights around.

I've got to get my cardio up. I'm usually known as the fitness guy on the Stanford team, but not 70 to 80 plays a game, so I've definitely got to step that up. But I'm all about it.

I love to lift after games.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

It's crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

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

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

I work out five days a week for 20 minutes; I only do one body part a day.

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.