Chris Long Quotes

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

The body doesn't recover like it does when you're younger.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

I have a very fit body and have never faced any major injury problems. So yes, the secret to my success is my fit body.

It's not easy, but I play with my body, and I can feel how important it is to get 100 percent fit to play. This is an important thing to play in the Premier League.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

For every player, it is important to be fit and have a good pre-season behind him.

I work on my body tremendously to be able to withstand whatever is thrown my way.

I have never pulled a muscle and I don't see myself as a person who needs to try and stay fit. I just need to play games and you can never replicate that in training.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.