Wilt Chamberlain Quotes

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

I'm in the gym nonstop, I'm always in shape, so I'm willing to do what it takes.

Basketball has given me so many opportunities, and it's something that's opened the world to me and allowed me to travel really all over the world.

I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.

I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

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.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I love sports. I love being active. I love challenging myself. I was a jock growing up from the time I could walk.

I've always been athletic my entire life and loved sports.

I sometimes train extra till four or five o'clock at the gym if I feel that I have to do something extra.

It's definitely a grind. Come to the gym early, leave late.

Coach Staley definitely had me doing overtime. It has been fun, though, man.

I try to take the approach that everyone really is an athlete at some level. I mean, we were all on the playground in the beginning. Some of us just stayed there.

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.