Dan Gable Quotes

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.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

With every rep, you're going to get better.

By the time the season's over, I'm ready to get back in the weight room and start training as far as getting stronger.

You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.

I was thrown into this world of training, and weightlifting, and boxing, and cardio. It's amazing to feel your body being capable of that.

Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

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

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.

I carry a lot of muscle easily.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.