Hugh Leonard Quotes

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

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

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

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.

When I go into the gym, I'm working on getting my muscles stronger, and I try to treat my mind in the same manner.

Whenever I get a chance to get my reps in, that's a good challenge for me.

Three days a week I do wrestling, as that's the best workout for the whole body.

If you look up what I did in Arizona, you'll see that I fought my way through training camp. I didn't have a problem fighting my teammates.

Training helps you get physically stronger and a lot of times it helps you push the bar mentally as well.

I started working out and doing martial arts when I was about 4 years old, and I was competing by the time I was five or six. So my mom and dad had me doing push-ups and sit-ups from a very young age.

I believe in my wrestling and I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

Training is my life. It's all I've known since I was in second grade, when I started wrestling.

Thanks to my dad, I've always had it. He always told me how important it was to be versatile. Every time we worked out in the gym, it was always all the skills, not just being a big man.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

Luckily I stayed in shape due to wrestling.