Paul Heyman Quotes

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

The lighter I am going into a fight, the more likely I am to get ill.

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

Sport is healthy, but it can be the opposite of that at the top level. You have so many injuries; you put your body through so much. You wake up at 2 in the morning, and you cannot move.

Training for five-round fights is too much for the body.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

A lot of people will comment, 'All the high flying will catch up to you.' I think any form of wrestling will catch up to you.

Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

I wrestled for 14 or 15 years. I've got a bunch of injuries, I'm tired, I'm getting old, I'm getting some grey hair now.

I do a healthy blend of mixed martial arts, dancing, functional training, and swimming. These exercises give me ample strength, endurance, flexibility, and stamina.