Dorian Yates Quotes

I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

The important thing is to train well during the week so you perform well physically come matchday.

There was this point in my life where I thought that I was not fit enough to do a full 90 on the field. I got up at maybe six o'clock in the morning, went running, then just kept doing laps.

A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.

The more in shape you are, the harder you can push yourself.

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

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

The way CrossFit is - anyone, on any given day, could beat you.

I'm always training to be quite honest, but there are those moments when you're a little more out of shape than you should be.

I'm a naturally very competitive person and I've been competing in triathlons throughout 2012 to keep fit and keep my mind sharp.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?

I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people if he trains the same way. You might as well have a competition for who's the tallest, and act like it's anyone's game!

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be