“When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!” ShouldSaidSportsLosesWeightFatsManagersCampsBootsBoot Camp Author:Li Na
“Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRunningSportsExerciseBenefitsDoctorsWeight Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughBodyRunningSportsWeekEasierTrainingWeightTrainYour BodyCoreBoredDifferent WaysTennisMusclesGymSwimmingLiftingCyclingCardioPlaying SportsCardiovascular ExerciseLifting Weights Author:Arjun Rampal
“Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.” HardBigsSeemsSportsRight NowWeightAverageBonesMusclesMaintaining Author:Lisa Leslie
“That's about the 1000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.” LittlesStuffSportsWeightNecks Author:Sterling Marlin
“When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.” SportsWalksStreetsTrainingWeightSocializing Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).” PlayMightBeautifulSportsLevelsOpinionTeamBasketballWeightFighterDamageTennisBoxingDivisionIntensitySubmitBrutalMetaphysicalAbstractionPrimalLightersReally BeautifulSports TeamFormalityPhysical Beauty Author:David Foster Wallace
“To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.” MindMadeHardSportsSuccessfulReadyTrainingWeightHeavyLifestyleFighterLive LifeChampionBeing SuccessfulDaily LifeGood FightHeavyweightsHeavy Weights Author:Mike Tyson
“I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.” MeanSocialSportsEnjoyLosesTakenExerciseWeightSakeParticipatingLose WeightFads Author:Dinah Shore
“Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. Its like that in football too.” IfsKnowsPersonsPlayWholeFallSportsTeamFieldsFootballWeightRight ThingPullingNavyDoing The Right ThingSports TeamLacrosseSlacking Author:Sean Price
“The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.” IfsKnowsWayMeanBeliefSportsUnderstandingClassSawsFindingsWeightCompetitionTerroristNot SureHallsTemperatureMetricsWeightliftingMetric System Author:Dave Barry
“I've got a strength and conditioning coach, a weights coach, but I've also got a nutritionist, a physiotherapist and a masseur available to me if I need it. It's quite a good network. I've also got sports scientists who record the technical information, so that, after the race, we can analyse the video and check comparisons between, not only me and the other competitors, but me and my best performance. I couldn't do it without these guys, but I'm the one who gets all the credit.” IfsNeedsGuySportsRaceRecordsInformationPerformancesScientistWeightAvailableCreditCoachesChecksVideoComparisonCompetitorsConditioningBest PerformanceNutritionistStrength And Conditioning Author:Liam Tancock
“Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.” ThinkingMenAgeSexSportsWeightShoppingSex Work Author:Carrie Fisher