Shawn Michaels Quotes

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.

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

You stay sharp. You go back into the gym. You work, put that work in, get that conditioning up, you lift. You pretty much know as a pro athlete what you need to do to get yourself back. But none of that, for me, means as much as playing.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

I work hard in training to be ready.

Training and playing are different things. I've noticed it. If you come in and you realise after six minutes that it is tiring, then that is a clear difference to training.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

The man who runs may fight again.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

I have good stamina and good endurance.

Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

The important thing is to train well during the week so you perform well physically come matchday.

I've been training quite hard.

When you play, of course you want to win, but the most important thing about pre-season is improving your fitness.