Jack Nicklaus Quotes

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

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 a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.

Weight training has enjoyed a huge impact, and the transformation has gone mainstream. I'm fortunate to be part of it.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

Tasha Steelz, I've watched a few of her training videos, and she is super athletic.

I can't remember what times I used to do in training because I always loved football and didn't have any interest in an athletics career. But I was always the quickest.

Obviously we've got a lot of science behind football these days and we've got a lot of people that can advise us on how best to look after our bodies.

I haven't been an athlete in school or college, though I have played basketball and football.

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.