Jimmy Graham Quotes

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.

I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

I try to work out six days a week, you know, weights two days a week, and I try to run those six days, so I get good cardio.

From the ages of 18 to 50 I ran, rowed and lifted weights at my home gym.

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

Me and my brother are players that spend three to four hours in the gym every day doing running, lifting heavy weights, and doing treadmill stuff.

I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.

I think I'm a good athlete.

The physical part of football has always been a massive part of my game so I can cover the ground during games.

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

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 dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.