Johanna Konta Quotes

With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.

I'm always training, whether I'm training my mind, or I'm training my body. I'm always doing something.

Besides working out for nearly six hours a day, I am also learning different forms of martial arts.

Training helps you get physically stronger and a lot of times it helps you push the bar mentally as well.

I have been following what is now called the 'Spartan Way' long before it became popular!

Fitness, in my opinion, is a mental exercise more than just physical.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

I approach my work still like an athlete. I have to go to the gym and run or ride the bike and work up a sweat. I need to still get my body right, and, in turn, that will make my mind right. That's how I approach acting.

I've always been a little kid compared to the guys I've competed against in terms of body development. I've always looked a lot younger, so naturally my body got a bit bigger and stronger. I combined that with a good work ethic, good mindset and focus.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

Whenever I get a chance to get my reps in, that's a good challenge for me.

I always work on my mind and my game.

It's difficult to motivate yourself to do the workouts when you get older but I train hard.

If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.