Sports Science Quotes

Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.

I'll look at stats after a game to see the work I've done in different areas.

In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.

I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on the sports science side.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

What would I have studied at university? Football!

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.

We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

My body shape has transformed as sports science research has developed. It used to be thought that footballers needed to be big and do lots of weights and little cardio.

Top European clubs are always progressing with what they can do off the field. Training is getting more scientific, and we are constantly getting more educated on nutrition.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the weight programs, you have the technology, and as a pitcher, you need to keep up.