Pat McAfee Quotes

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

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 don't ever take an extended period off between minicamp and the start of training camp.

The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.

You always want to put time and thought into how guys can improve during the offseason.

The only 'special supplements' I'm using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.

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.

The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love 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.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

I amp up my workout by doing Ballet Beautiful twice a day.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

I box 12 rounds a day five days a week.

Everyone knows how much and how hard we train. If I hope to continue goalkeeping until I am 36 or 37, then you have to think about how I train.

The pre-CrossFit Rich Froning was a wuss.

I usually train twice a day, and Thursdays and Sundays are supposed to be my days off. But even on those days, I'm training at least once. I have to do at least one session each day to be happy.