Taylor Phinney Quotes

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Sports life is very short.

I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

I get a lot of free time between films, but I don't know why I hardly dance.

I study this sport.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.

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 condition with Pilates and yoga; they're my two favourite things that I do, and they go hand in hand with dancing.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I want to play until I'm 38.

There are nothing but great things that come out of dancing. People are laughing, people are uncomfortable, it's an ice breaker.

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

Lionel Messi, I never saw him in the gym. I've never seen him train in the stops or do technical exercises.

We're professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

When you're dancing and stuff like that, that's a way of life.

Off the field, Ronaldo was also focusing on everything extensively, such as resting up properly and strengthening his body. After training sessions, he would often work on his free-kicks and then come to me and say, 'Edwin, can you go in goal?'

I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.

I'm keeping myself busy with hobbies and sport. I have my animals and a huge garden.

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.