A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, 'Hey, don't do that to me.'
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
You can't get by at any level if you can't exert yourself physically or keep up with the demands.
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Design is something you have to put your hand to.
You can't just learn wrestling overnight.
Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.
Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.
I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.
I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.
I don't want to be on such a strict diet that I don't have fun. So if I eat sweets, I'll just put in more of an effort when I go to the gym.
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
Writing is the hardest physical work there is.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.
