Ben Askren Quotes

During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

When I was young, we used to do drills to get a feel for the man you were marking.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

And since my father started training me, he always explained to me how important footwork is and how strong your legs have to be.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

If I'm coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don't just say, 'OK, now go five-minute goes,' because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down the line.

I have my coach, Urijah Faber. He's watching me do everything pretty much all the time. I'm training or grappling or sparring live. He's over there making adjustments. He's really hands on, so that makes a big difference.

Footballers are always learning new things.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!

Set pieces are something I work hard at after training, and I hit quite a lot every day.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

My kids are little athletes.

I feel like when you're out there and getting reps up and getting a lot of time, then the game's starting to slow down a whole lot.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.