Bill Rodgers Quotes

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

Since I was 13 years old, I made sure I was going to training every day.

I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.

To be on time, to eat well like a professional, to sleep like a professional. To train and play like a professional. I encourage everyone to do this every day.

Fitness is just like marriage: you cannot cheat on it and think it would benefit you. People need to incorporate it as part of their daily life.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.

The most important thing with me is consistency.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.