Andy Ruiz Jr. Quotes

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

It is very important to me to maintain a consistent workout regimen during the season. The Bulls staff does a great job with providing me with a weekly workout, and these kept me energized throughout my rookie season. In the off season, I try to increase my strength and add new dimensions to my game.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a sport, then you realise that being athletically fit is a very different kind of fitness.

I think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.

The same way you train yourself to be physically gifted player - whether you do weights, or running to get in shape or swimming - the mental side is the same way. You've got to train yourself to be ready for whatever.

It took me a lot to learn to control adrenaline; and other sports you use adrenaline to your advantage.

For a player, it is important to work and work well and improve every day in pre-season.

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.

I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold.

I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.

I was glad I did a year abroad, because it helped me as an athlete and as a person. That took me out of my comfort zone. Watching the French athletes train in the Pyrenees made me realise what I had to do to become a top athlete.

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!