Hima Das Quotes

Top athletes are like warriors.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

I'm not going to change the way I work out in the offseason and prepare. I'm not going to change the way I approach the game. I'm not going to change the way I play every day.

If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

I have the same routine every day just to make me a better basketball player, and I'm going to continue the routine just to see where it gets me and how I can reach my potential.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

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.

I train, eat, sleep, and repeat.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

I started training when I was 15.

I don't believe in having a rest day.

Jumping isn't as important to my training as you might think; I'm only in the sandpit once a week. There's a high risk factor of injury doing it, so instead, I rely on my progress in the gym to judge how far I'll jump on the big day.

Every day, I do training. Sometimes at midnight I train, sometimes 4:30 in the morning as well.

In sports, everything is a process.

My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

I am just trying to keep my performances consistent.

If your performance levels are right, that brings results and that brings momentum naturally. We believe in the training schedule.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

I'm the type of guy that hates to get out of practice.