Rashad Evans Quotes

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.

Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Well, I'm definitely gonna focus on being a better all-around player.

I always practice as I intend to play.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.

Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.