Kevin Knox Quotes

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

It's all about how you treat your body. It's proper rest and proper nutrition.

You've just got to train hard. Conditioning is key, recovery is key. As hard as you work, recovery is just as important. All the soft-tissue work daily, all the things that keep me clean. And you've always got to be aware of what you're eating, what you're putting inside your body. That's key as well.

Honestly, I just try to take care of my body as much as possible: eating, recovery, just making sure that I'm always on top of staying healthy and making sure my body is 100 percent throughout the season.

Your body is your machine - you need your fuel.

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.

I want to last in my career, and that relies on the way my body performs. So I need to take care of it.

Watch what you put into your body. It will carry you a long way. No doubt.

You're never going to be bulletproof, but if you're feeding yourself good food and making sure you're eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.

It's important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.

Nutrition is important, training is important - but so are rest and recovery, massages, acupuncture. Your body is your temple, and you've got to take care of it.

You must be in supreme physical condition. If your body isn't right, you cannot play in the Premier League.

My body was built through years of good food - and beer.

If I feel great and my body feels great and my knee is fine, I should play 30 minutes or more. I definitely have my opinion on that.

In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

You've got to know what you put in your body. That's it.

If you're not taking care of your food, your body, you're not gonna look great.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.