Gene Kelly Quotes

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.

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 really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

I'm the type of guy that hates to get out of practice.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

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.

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.

At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.