Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

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.

At Barcelona, we didn't do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard.

I feel my arm's gotten stronger, I've been more accurate with it, and I've just got to keep that going.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.

I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out.

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

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.

I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.

All good players have to do that, to learn how to get better throughout the season. Just really work on my body. Just try to stay healthy and be stronger. Just try to get bigger.

I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.

Put on about 10 more pounds, that'd be good for me and the development of my game.

I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.

I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it's not like I never exercised.

I witnessed an MVP firsthand in Jose Altuve. I asked him what he did during the offseason, and he said he trains his core.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

I have progressed well since switching my training to Loughborough, and I feel I still have another 30% of progress left in me before my peak.

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

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.