Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'
Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.
Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
At my height, I've got to be fast.
I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.
I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.
In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.
There is something fundamental about Leo in terms of what he transmits to the supporters and what he transmits to the opposition when he starts to run at you. And I speak from experience.
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.
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.
The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.
The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.
I believe I'm a pretty good fighter and have accomplished more than Lomachenko.
I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.
I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.
I like that I'm in shape but still look like a woman. I don't feel like I've had to give up my femininity to be an athlete. I feel good about my body because I work hard every day, and I still look and carry myself as a woman - a strong woman.
I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.
