Patrick Vieira Quotes

At Barcelona, we didn't do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

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

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.

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.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

Some guys get by on natural athletic ability. And then when they reach a certain point, they got to put in the time before and after practice and in the off-season.

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

The way people train is the most dangerous thing because we train, like, everyday.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

I only started playing top football when I was 17 and a half.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.

I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.

I get to work out with Eli Manning and NFL guys daily, couldn't ask for anything more.