Steve Mariucci Quotes

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Every time I am not playing, I am training harder to keep myself fit.

I love the Bosu ball. At least two or three times a week, I'm on the Bosu ball just doing a ton of balance work. It keeps my body in tip-top shape.

The only way you can get match fitness is by playing games.

The more in shape you are, the harder you can push yourself.

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training.

I'm up at like 6 a.m. With my trainer, running up the hill you drove up to get here.

I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just train like an athlete.

I need match practice of course, I need minutes in my legs to reach my best form.

Five times a week, I do two hours running and gym work. That's to help with things like blood circulation. Also, it is good to be in shape in case I need to go into hospital again.

I'll do some light weights once or twice a week, but I probably run 3 miles five days a week.

I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.

I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

Staying physically active - walking or running every day - and eating healthily is the best way to stay fit.