Bela Karolyi Quotes

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.

In wrestling, you've got to be an athlete. You can't just be a body builder; you can't just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

Wrestling is about evolving, and you always want to evolve and develop yourself.

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

For me, the reason I keep working out and want to get bigger and focus on staying fit is because when you do fall it's easier to tighten up and not get hurt. I also wrestle, and that helps me a lot with taking a fall. A lot of what I do at the end of they day are things that will help me to not get hurt.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

I'm not super-athletic.

I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

Being explosive, quick, elusive and fast helps my game, so I do tons of lunges, leg press and different explosion type of runs.