Derek Brunson Quotes

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

I was thrown into this world of training, and weightlifting, and boxing, and cardio. It's amazing to feel your body being capable of that.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

A regular workout for me is 30 minutes of intense cardio followed by lifting weights.

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

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.

With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.

From the ages of 18 to 50 I ran, rowed and lifted weights at my home gym.

I work out one-and-a-half hours a day, five times a week to strengthen my muscles and increase tone.

I had a few months of physical prep where I was training six hours a day - I was doing an hour and a bit of yoga, I would do a couple hours of cardio and weight-lifting, and then I would do an hour or maybe two of martial arts training.

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

I wanna get myself in such good shape that no matter how much I push myself in a fight, I know that the other guy is gonna be a little bit more tired.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.

I don't box for the attention.