Andrew Flintoff Quotes

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

It is very important to me to maintain a consistent workout regimen during the season. The Bulls staff does a great job with providing me with a weekly workout, and these kept me energized throughout my rookie season. In the off season, I try to increase my strength and add new dimensions to my game.

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.

I think that for my sport, the core is the most important. I mean, really in all sports, but especially in the sport I play, I keep my core right and try and keep that up no matter what I'm doing.

I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.

I went to Brazil to learn more about my body and my physique: what to do before training, during training, after training, even after the match.

I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.

You want to be confident when you work out because it takes a lot to make you work out. So many women really enjoy it, but it's a hard thing and you have to make yourself do it most of the time. I think you want to feel that you look good to make you want to work out a little bit more.

It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.

Once I'm in training camp, there's no beer, there's no soda, there's no bad food. There's no anything. It's eat, sleep and breathe training.

I work out in the morning before I join group training sessions with the team.

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.

I love doing core workouts. The core is so important in tennis.

No self-respecting gym goer skips leg day.

I didn't care about the draft. I didn't want to do the workouts - they put you in two-on-two full-court drills with guards. That's not going to help me.

Getting back into shape is always a difficult task for me.

I tried to be one of the best-conditioned athletes.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

Gymnastics gives you the abs. It's not like I sit there doing like a thousand crunches before every practice or something like that.

I love doing a lot of cardio. It's not so much for the way I look. It's for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.

I lift weights in the offseason about four times a week; during the season, I'll lift three times a week. The weight training is key because most guys come in during the summertime as strong as they are going to get, and they fizzle down as the year starts.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

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

You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.