Adrian Peterson Quotes

There's no offseason in this business. I'm just going to make sure I train my butt off in and out of the ring.

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

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

I train hard.

All the hard work starts in the gym.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

I try to give my all every day at training.

Fitness is also something I have worked on, especially because I know I have to bowl a lot more if I want to play for the country.

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

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'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.